: It seems like what's missing is the efficient ability for : TermDocs/TermInfosReader to seek to the first term of a given field. : They already can seek to a given specific term; with some small
isn't TermEnum.skipTo(new Term("field","") followed by termDocs.seek(TermEnum) going to take care of this for you? The first call should efficinetly skip to the first term in the field "field" (if there is one) and the second call should efficiently seek the TermDoc to the first doc containing that term. (This is how TermScorer and RangeFilter work work as i recall) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]