On 09/08/07, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > A null field (meaning no value) can be indexed by leaving it out, and > searched with a negative filter or query clause: > -field:[* TO *] > > -Yonik >
Ah, that's a much more elegant solution, is this query syntax specific to Solr? (I don't recall seeing it in the Lucene query parser syntax documentation). Also, is there a simple method to search for fields containing an empty string? Thanks, Piete