FWIW: If you're reading LIA, part of your confusion may be that Filters, and when/how they are factored into iterating over scorers, has changed significantly over the years.
: Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:45:14 +0100 : From: Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> : Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : Cc: Mousom Dhar Gupta <mousom.gu...@airbnb.com> : Subject: Re: Filters execution efficiency : : Applying a filter with a filtered query works very similarly to a : Boolean query with 2 MUST clauses. The query and filter iterators are : advanced in a leap-frog fashion in order to compute the intersection. : So the filter is neither applied before or after the query but rather : at the same time. : : On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Manjesh Nilange : <manjesh.nila...@airbnb.com.invalid> wrote: : > Hi all, : > : > I have recently started to learn about Lucene and I'm a little confused : > about how Filters work. I am going through the "Lucene in Action" book and : > did some Internet research, but haven't found an answer yet, hence this : > email... : > : > From basic experimentation, I know that Filters work on the entire document : > set (before the inverted index is looked up). Why not run the filters on : > the hits after the index lookup? That'd reduce the number of filter : > executions...I don't imagine that running the filters first would : > effectively reduce the size of the index (making the lookup faster). Any : > guidance is much appreciated! : > : > Thanks in advance, : : : : -- : Adrien : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org : For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org : : -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
