[Xapian-discuss] Wildcard search?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Aug 19 10:39:06 BST 2005


On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:09:41AM +0200, roki roki wrote:
> I have installed version 0.9.2 but results with flag wildcard are not what I
> have expected. I am using changed BM25 scheme (b=0) because i want to get
> documents with most wdf at the top. It work excellent but when i use
> wildcard documents with less wdf comes as first?
> Any idea how to change this?

Currently the wildcard just expands as if you'd written all the matching
terms in the query instead.  What you want is SynonymPostList:

http://xapian.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50

But we don't yet have that I'm afraid.

Cheers,
    Olly



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