Re: boolean versus non-boolean search

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Sokolov
On 05/16/2011 09:24 AM, Dmitry Kan wrote: Dear list, Might have missed it from the literature and the list, sorry if so, but: SOLR 1.4.1 Consider the query: term1 term2 OR "term1 term2" OR "term1 term3" I think what's happening is that your query gets rewritten into something like:

Re: boolean versus non-boolean search

2011-05-16 Thread Dmitry Kan
Hi Jonathan, Well, I clearly understand, why 'term1 term2 OR ...' gives exactly same results as 'term1 AND term2 OR ...', but what I do not get is, why grouping with parentheses is required to have both term1 and term2 in the same hit even though AND is the default operator and space between terms

Re: boolean versus non-boolean search

2011-05-16 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Why? Becuase of how the solr/lucene query parser parses? It parses into seperate tokens/phrases, and then marks each unit as mandatory or optional. The operator's joining the tokens/phrases are used to determine if a unit is mandatory or optional. Since your defaultOperator="AND" term1 t

boolean versus non-boolean search

2011-05-16 Thread Dmitry Kan
Dear list, Might have missed it from the literature and the list, sorry if so, but: SOLR 1.4.1 Consider the query: term1 term2 OR "term1 term2" OR "term1 term3" Problem: The query produces a hit containing only term1. Solution: Modified query, grouping with parenthesis (term1 term2) OR "t