Ferret talk - Apr 2008 - Default maximum result size

Hi, I''ve got a Ferret index which I''m using through
ActsAsFerret on a
database with about 300,000 records. Searches on the index (for example
wildcard - "A*") seem to be truncated at 512 results. This is a
problem
as I also pass conditions to ActiveRecord which filter this resultset
down, often to zero results when in fact the database contains many
records which matched the conditions but just happened to be outside the
512 Ferret return.

I thought the solution would be setting max terms to a higher value,
with something like - Ferret::Search::MultiTermQuery.default_max_terms 5000,
however this seems to have no effect. Is there somewhere this
value is overridden or could there be some other setting which is
restricting the number of results returned by Ferret?

Any help or ideas would be great! Thanks!
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:36:53PM +0200, Tom Castle
wrote:
> Hi, I''ve got a Ferret index which I''m using through
ActsAsFerret on a
> database with about 300,000 records. Searches on the index (for example
> wildcard - "A*") seem to be truncated at 512 results. This is a
problem
> as I also pass conditions to ActiveRecord which filter this resultset
> down, often to zero results when in fact the database contains many
> records which matched the conditions but just happened to be outside the
> 512 Ferret return.
> 
> I thought the solution would be setting max terms to a higher value,
> with something like - Ferret::Search::MultiTermQuery.default_max_terms >
5000, however this seems to have no effect. Is there somewhere this
> value is overridden or could there be some other setting which is
> restricting the number of results returned by Ferret?
Yes, most probably it''s the boolean query''s max_clauses option
which
defaults to 512.

If you''re using the QueryParser, you may pass it :max_clauses =>
5000
option to globally raise this for all kinds of queries. There should
also be a max_clauses class method in BooleanQuery.

Cheers,
Jens


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