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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:04:03 +0100
To: Lucene Users List <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Leading Wild Card Search
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From: Kristian Hermsdorf <kristian.hermsdorf@ifbus.de>
Organization: Interface Business
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Hi

> I've written a PrefixQuery and it's not hard to do  -I can post it too.
> Problem is that it is not integrated into the query parser (.jj) so odds
> are noone will use it, and the general sentiment on this list (and lucene-dev)
> is that prefix queries are evil because it's an expensive operation as the query
> code has to traverse all terms to "expand" the query. I would prefer
> a more user oriented view i.e. just allow it as sometimes it's what you need and
> the only alternative I can think of, doing a fuzzy query, isn't quite right.

wow - great!
I'm looking for a sample code for quite a goode time. I'd like to test the performance on our data to see if it's really that slow.

It would be great if you could post a URL whrer to find your extension.

thank you

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