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I think you would need to do the search to get list of 1000 doc ids, but wouldn't need to retrieve all 1000. Just pick your random 10 from the list and retrieve them. -- Ian. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 4, 2008 11:37 AM, Juerg Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have the requirement for an "i'm feeling lucky" button, at least sort of. > Whereas google just delivers the first record in a result set, we should > deliver 10 arbitrary hits chosen out of, let's say, 1000. All of these > documents have the same importance i.e. have the same weight. > > So, is there an elegant way with the Lucene API to achieve this? Or do we > need to retrieve all 1000 docs first, to do a random selection on our own > afterwards? That appears to be quite expensive. > > Thanks for any hint, > -- Juerg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
