Limit number of search results

2006-07-25 Thread headhunter
Hello, I am looking for a way to limit the number of search results I retrieve when searching. I am only interested in (let's say) the first ten hits of a query.. maybe I want to look at hits ten..twenty to, but usually only the first results are important. Right now lucene searches through th

Re: Limit number of search results

2006-07-25 Thread headhunter
Hello Miles, thanks for your answer. I guess the recommended way to implement paging of results is to do your own query-results caching, right? Or does lucene also do this for me? Johannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Limit-number-of-search-results-tf1998377.html#a

Re: Limit number of search results

2006-07-25 Thread headhunter
Hello, this really doesn't answer my question ;) I've indeed read the FAQ (though I couldn't believe this point ;) . Is it recommended to do the search again - discarding the uninteresting values - because lucene caches the results, or just because lucene is so damn fast? Johannes -- View thi

Re: Limit number of search results

2006-07-26 Thread headhunter
Hello Daniel, thank you for your answer. I'm still a little worried about doing uneccesarry work - this is totally different from what I know when working with DBMS. Johannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Limit-number-of-search-results-tf1998377.html#a5498842 Sent f

Re: Limit number of search results

2006-07-26 Thread headhunter
Chris Hostetter wrote: > > [..] > > : In the first case: there is no uneccessary work. Lucene must look at > : every matching docId in order to determing which docs should be the > first > : 10. > [..] > Yes, you are right. Haven't thought of that :) 'Bout the second thing: You're right too.