[LUCENE-5206] FuzzyQuery: matching terms must be longer than maxEdits

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.5
• Fix Version/s: 4.5, 6.0
• Component/s: core/other
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 12/Sep/13 18:52
• Updated: 08/Sep/16 14:08
• Resolved: 12/Sep/13 21:31

Description

FuzzyQuery's maxEdit value must be larger than the length of both terms for there to be a match. Based on a response from the java-user list, it looks like I wasn't the only one surprised by this. Let's document this design choice more clearly in the documentation or modify the behavior.

Apologies if I missed the documentation of this.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-7439 Should FuzzyQuery match short terms too?