And, a negative query does not work, so if this is the only clause, you have to say:
*:* AND -field[* TO *] Where *:* is a special code for "all documents". It's like learning a language: there is the normal grammar, there are the unusual cases, and then there are the bizarre slang expressions. -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:16 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to know if a field is null? On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Alexander Ramos Jardim wrote: > I'd like to know if there's a way to query for not having a field set. > Something like saying "I want all the docs that have field A empty". > > Is that possible? Sure is.... -field:[* TO *] that'll match all documents that do NOT have terms in "field" Erik
