Currently, that field's semantics are defined to be exactly equal to the size
of the digest list in the response.
A better use of that field would be for the search service to reveal whatever
information it knows about the total size of the search result. The data in
this field should allow partial information, so that supplying no information
at all is valid behaviour (to allow scaling). Having that field reveal
information like 'exactly N', 'at least N', 'roughly N', and/or 'unknown'
should be considered.
Tad: is this relevant to the search architecture you've been working on?
Original issue reported on code.google.com by hearn...@google.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 1:53
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
hearn...@google.comon 8 Feb 2011 at 1:53