On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Jens Kraemer wrote: > the plus sign marks a required clause in a query. A document can > only be > a hit if it matches that clause. The opposite of this is the minus > sign, > documents that match such a clause can't be a hit. Internally, Ferret > doesn't handle AND and such, they get translated by the query parser, > i.e. 'a AND b' --> '+a +b' > > Clauses without + or - are optional 'nice to have' clauses, they will > raise a document's score if they match, but the doc won't be excluded > from the hits if they don't. So 'a OR b' gets transformed into 'a b'.
Thanks for that, I actually was completely unaware of the case without + or -. Very nice. However, my question was actually more simple: are the semantics of these two bit of a query the same? title:(+return +"pink panther") +title:(return AND "pink panther") Thanks, John _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
