Thanks again for replying and giving insight to this, Jack. Your two links were exactly the answer I was hoping for going forward.
5. mars 2013 kl. 14:12 skrev Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>: > See: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2370 > > Maybe Uwe could comment on his change. > > I suppose you could say that it was a "feature" that the error was previously > "silently ignored", but that would be a matter of debate. The simple fact is > that you are asking a module to do something that it cannot do for the > supplied index data. I agree that this is a matter of debate, and have no trouble seeing the arguments for not silently ignoring this. I feel however that this could potential break stuff and should be signaled. Having dug around on nibble & google without finding anything made me a bit worrisome. > You might want to propose that the query parsers avoid the exception, > possibly as an option, if a phrase if attempted against a non-position field, > which can happen easily when fields are listed in "qf", "pf", et al. Years > ago when I stumbled into this change I simply generated a boolean query for > the phrase if the field did not have position info. I'm curious - how did you do this? Be re-writing the query on the client side, or is there a neat trick I've missed on how to this automagically? > There does appear to be an open Solr issue that may cover this: SOLR-2660 - > omitPositions improvements > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2660 I see Jan already commented on the issue linking to this discussion, so I guess we can continue any debate there. > Maybe that's one difference between Lucene and Solr - Lucene is a precision > library for experts, while Solr is attempting to provide a search box for > casual users where getting some results I better even if the price is less > precision - or at least provide options to choose degrees of precision. Spot on. Thanks again. Fredrik -- Fredrik Rødland Mail: fred...@rodland.no Cell: +47 99 21 98 17 Twitter: @fredrikr Maisen Pedersens vei 1 Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/fmmr/ NO-1363 Høvik, NORWAY Web: http://about.me/fmr
