Salman, It looks like what you describe has been implemented at Twitter.
Presentation from the recent Lucene / Solr Revolution conference in Dublin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguWva8P_DI On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Salman Akram < salman.ak...@northbaysolutions.net> wrote: > The issue with timeallowed is you never know if it will return minimum > amount of docs or not. > > I do want docs to be sorted based on date but it seems its not possible > that solr starts searching from recent docs and stops after finding certain > no. of docs...any other tweak? > > Thanks > > > On Saturday, March 8, 2014, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> > wrote: > > > > > : Reason: In an index with millions of documents I don't want to know > that > > a > > : certain query matched 1 million docs (of course it will take time to > > : calculate that). Why don't just stop looking for more results lets say > > : after it finds 100 docs? Possible?? > > > > but if you care about sorting, ie: you want the top 100 documents sorted > > by score, or sorted by date, you still have to "collect" all 1 million > > matches in order to know what the first 100 are. > > > > if you really don't care about sorting, you can use the "timAllowed" > > option to tell the seraching method to do the best job it can in an > > (approximated) limited amount of time, and then pretend that the docs > > collected so far represent the total number of matches... > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Common+Query+Parameters#CommonQueryParameters-ThetimeAllowedParameter > > > > > > -Hoss > > http://www.lucidworks.com/ > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Salman Akram > Project Manager - Intelligize > NorthBay Solutions > 410-G4 Johar Town, Lahore > Off: +92-42-35290152 > > Cell: +92-302-8495621 > -- Dmitry Blog: http://dmitrykan.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dmitrykan
