Hi all,
We are indexing different types of documents, some with certain fields set and
some without, some fields sometimes in both.
If a particular field is missing in a newly added record, I would have
expected the query:
field_name:(-null)
not to return this particular record in the respo
Have you seen this page?
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html
>From that page:
Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the
following search will return no results:
NOT "jakarta apache"
Erick
On Jan 14, 2008 9:30 AM, Karen Loughran <[EMAIL PRO
Hi Erik, thanks for your reply,
I had read this page. But I'm not using the "NOT" operator, I'm using
the "-" operator. I'm assuming there is a subtle difference between them in
that NOT qualifies something else, hence needs 2 terms. Isn't the "-"
operator supposed to be a complement to th
find records
with empty fields.
Lance Norskog
-Original Message-
From: Karen Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:51 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Cc: Erick Erickson
Subject: Re: field:(-null) returns records where field was not specified
Hi Erik, thanks fo
Several things in this thread should be clarified (note: order of
quotations munged for clarity)...
: I had read this page. But I'm not using the "NOT" operator, I'm using the
: "-" operator. I'm assuming there is a subtle difference between them in
: that NOT qualifies something else, hence
Thanks Chris, this is useful, we can you the query format you suggest,
Karen
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 01:13:14 Chris Hostetter wrote:
> Several things in this thread should be clarified (note: order of
> quotations munged for clarity)...
>
> : I had read this page. But I'm not using the "NOT"
