Jason,

Thank you for your message.


> 
> - there were some issues with a combination of wildcards and stemming.
> I'm not clear on the details but David Norris has a good understanding
> of what's happening here...
>

I will need some help here because I do not use stemming mor soundex (my
databases
are not in english). 

> - there was a design flaw where, if you specified multiple indicies to
> return results from, maxhits would take the first n entries from the
> indicies in the order they were searched.   If maxhits was less than
> the total results, this would mean that the results from the second
> and subsequent searches could be either incomplete or possibly missing
> altogether.
>

I was aware of this (thanks to David Norris).

Have a nice day

-- 

Jose Manuel Ruiz Ramos

jmruiz@boe.es