Hello - I stumbled across an odd error which my intuition is telling me is a bug.
Here is my installation: Solr Specification Version: 1.2.2008.08.13.13.05.16 Lucene Implementation Version: 2.4-dev 685576 - 2008-08-13 10:55:25 I did the following query today: author:(r*a* AND fisher) And get the following 500 error: maxClauseCount is set to 1024 org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery$TooManyClauses: maxClauseCount is set to 1024 at org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery.add(BooleanQuery.java:165) at org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery.add(BooleanQuery.java:156) at org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery.rewrite(MultiTermQuery.java:63) at org.apache.lucene.search.WildcardQuery.rewrite(WildcardQuery.java:54) at org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery.rewrite(BooleanQuery.java:385) at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.rewrite(IndexSearcher.java:163) at org.apache.lucene.search.Query.weight(Query.java:94) at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.createWeight(Searcher.java:175) at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:126) at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:105) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListNC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:966) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:838) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.search(SolrIndexSearcher.java:269) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.process(QueryComponent.java:160) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:167) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1156) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:341) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:272) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1088) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:729) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:829) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:513) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:488) Thanks Andrew