[LUCENE-5245] ConstantScoreAutoRewrite rewrites prefix queryies that don't match anything before query weight is calculated

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.4
• Fix Version/s: 4.5, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Nik Everett
• Created: 25/Sep/13 20:36
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:54
• Resolved: 26/Sep/13 06:54

Description

ConstantScoreAutoRewrite rewrites prefix queryies that don't match anything before query weight is calculated. This dramatically changes the resulting score which is bad when comparing scores across different Lucene indexes/shards/whatever.