Yes! wildcards are not analyzed. Thanks Shwan for reminding me. Thanks Erick for your response.
Best, Modassar On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a blog on the subject: > > https://lucidworks.com/blog/2011/11/29/whats-with-lowercasing-wildcard-multiterm-queries-in-solr/ > > bq: When validator is changed to validate, both at query time and index > time, > then should not validator*/validator return the same results at-least? > > This is one of those problems that's easy to state, but hard to solve. And > there are so many variations that any attempt to solve it will _always_ > have lots of surprises. Simple example (and remember that the > stemming is usually algorithmic). "validator" probably stems to "validat". > However, "validato" (note the 'o') may not stem > the same way at all, so searching for "validato*" wouldn't produce the > expected response..... > > Best, > Erick > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > On 4/18/2016 1:18 AM, Modassar Ather wrote: > >> When I search for f:validator I get 80K+ documents whereas if I search > for > >> f:validator* I get only around 150 results. > >> > >> When I checked on analysis page I see that validator is changed to > >> validate. Per my understanding in both the above cases it should > at-least > >> give the exact same result of around 80K+ documents. > > > > What Reth was trying to tell you, but did not state clearly, is that > > when you use wildcards, your query is NOT analyzed -- none of your > > filters, including the stemmer, are used. > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > >
