Re: Calculating idf across multiple indexes

2005-06-06 Thread yahootintin . 11533894
Hmmm... I'll look into that. I thought the MultiSearcher would still need access to each index. Does the RemoteSearchable avoid that? Will it allow me to delegate searching to multiple boxes and then collate the results correctly? Thanks for the tip about the RemoteSearchable. --- java-us

Re: Calculating idf across multiple indexes

2005-06-06 Thread Daniel Naber
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 00:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that if I tell Lucene about only one of the indexes > it has no way of knowing what the total document frequency is across the > other index servers. Can't you use ParallelMultiSearcher and/or RemoteSearchable? Regards Dan

Re: Calculating idf across multiple indexes

2005-06-06 Thread yahootintin . 11533894
Hi Daniel, The problem is that if I tell Lucene about only one of the indexes it has no way of knowing what the total document frequency is across the other index servers. Does that make sense? I think my collator will need to calculate the idf somehow. Thanks. --- java-user@lucene.apa

Re: Calculating idf across multiple indexes

2005-06-06 Thread Daniel Naber
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 00:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >  How are others working around > this issue? This has been fixed in the development version of Lucene. It's already quite stable, so I suggest to try it (needs to be checked out from SVN). Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de

Calculating idf across multiple indexes

2005-06-06 Thread yahootintin . 11533894
Hi, Due to the size of my index, I need to break it into several different segments. I have a service that gets a query from the user and contacts each index searcher service asynchronously and waits for the results. The results are then collated and returned to the user. The problem is tha