> 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 ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. University of Liverpool ____/:::::::::::::. L5R Shop: http://www.cardsnotwords.com/ I L L U M I N A T I