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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:53:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Assorted questions
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Your memory is serving you well.
http://www.lucenebook.com/search?query=%22range+query%22+performance

Note the hit in section 6.5.1 - the fact that we used range queries in
the performance section is an indicator that one can really mess things
up if using range queries injudiciously. :)  In particular, the typical
advice is to try to round the time information, to avoid costly range
queries.  Seconds sound like trouble.

Otis


--- Scott Smith <ssmith@mainstreamdata.com> wrote:
> I needed to return my hits list in date/time order (instead of
> relevancy).  So, I implemented a class that converted dates to an int
> and stored the integer as a field in my index.  I passed a Sort
> object
> to the IndexSearcher (indicating that the sort field was convertible
> to
> int) to get things back in date/time order.  It works great.
> 
>  
> 
> Now I need to do a search within a date/time range (e.g., all the
> documents between 1/1/2005 00:00:00 to 1/5/2005 23:59:59).  It
> appears
> that there is no way to use the integer date to do the range search
> since Lucene is really looking at the string representation of the
> int.
> Even prefixing enough zeros to make all of the integers the same
> length
> doesn't help (darn negative numbers).
> 
>  
> 
> Have I missed something?  Or, will I need to put some kind of
> date/time
> string that looks like "20050308172533" (for 3/8/2005 17:25:33) in
> the
> index?
> 
>  
> 
> My second question is whether range searches are efficient?  I seem
> to
> recall reading somewhere that range searches get converted to a list
> of
> the individual items.  Since a day has 86,400 seconds, a few days
> worth
> of searching would require a very large list.  Please tell me that
> I'm
> out-in-the-weeds on my recall and that range searches are efficient
> (i.e., it's effectively just doing a string compare with the start
> and
> end terms).
> 
>  
> 
> Scott 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 

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