"YYYYMMDD" is better since it has less number unique terms compared with the unix time stamp if you only care about the days.
-----Original Message----- From: Filip Anselm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:56 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to search between dates? DateFilter sounds great!! - But how is the best way to store dates in af Field? I get the time as a unix time stamp, seconds since epoch - and usually I can cut it down to hours or days since ephoc instead - if this has any effect on the perfomance... thanks... Chris Hostetter wrote: >: How do I combine two queries - one made by the QueryParser and the >: programmatically made RangeQuery? > >you could make them both children of a single BooleanQuery, but as long as >you're going to write a little java code to put them together -- why not >use a DateFilter instead? > >http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/search/DateFilter.html > >...it's more efficient then a RangeQuery, it doesn't have the same >"TooManyCLauses" limitations as a RangeQuery, and it would artificially >affect the score of your results. > > > > >-Hoss > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
