[LUCENE-7880] Make boolean query clause limit configurable per-query

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yonik Seeley
• Created: 16/Jun/17 23:04
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:16

Description

As we know, the magic BooleanQuery.maxClauseCount has bitten many people over time.
It's also a static, which really hurts multi-tenancy (i.e. we can't have different settings for different users, clients, or use-cases).

If we want to keep this static as a default, then at least we should allow it to be overridden on a per-query basis when we know it is the desired behavior and not a bug.

Perhaps the simplest way to achieve this would be a setter on BooleanQuery.Builder that configures the limit for that instance only?

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-10921 Make boolean query clause limit configurable per-query
• is related to: SOLR-4586 Eliminate the maxBooleanClauses limit
• relates to: LUCENE-4835 Raise maxClauseCount in BooleanQuery to Integer.MAX_VALUE