> No, the problem is that too many terms were generated to be OR'd together.
> The result set might end up with only one record in it.

Do intermediate stages count as result sets? I guess not.

It's also not that the number of records in the intermediate stage is too
large (as there could be only one record per term).

Okay, I'm convinced.

130: Too many terms matched by masked query term ?

With Ralph's example as the note and an unspecified details format?

(As knowing the maximum number of terms that a mask can match is for all
intents and purposes useless to the client)

Rob

>> cql.serverChoice="gsafd*". My engine threw an exception saying that the
>> list of terms generated was too big, but I don't have an SRW diagnostic to
>> return for that case.

> Surely:
> 60 Result set not created: too many matching records

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