I'll defer the the hard-core Lucene committers for the technical details, but I would suggest that a very large term with dozens of wildcards is a "known limitation" (albeit not well-documented.) IOW, to use wildcards in Lucene in a performant manner, they need to be "brief".

-- Jack Krupansky

-----Original Message----- From: Clemens Wyss DEV
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 3:17 AM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: QueryParserUtil, big query with wildcards -> runs endlessly and produces heavy load

The following "testcase" runs endlessly and produces VERY heavy load.
...
String query = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut " + "labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et " + "ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. " + "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt " + "ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores " + "et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";
String query  = query.replaceAll( "\\s+", "*" );
try
{
QueryParserUtil.parse( query, new String[] { "test" }, new Occur[] { Occur.MUST }, new KeywordAnalyzer() );
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
Assert.fail( e.getMessage() );
}
...
I don't say this testcase makes "sense", nevertheless the question remains whether this is a bug or a "feature"?

Context: Lucene 4.7.2, Java 6

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