I'm not fully following everything you've got here, but one thing jumped out at me...
: <tokenizer : class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" /> <!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does : Now, when I search with ?q=the doors , all the terms in my q= aren't used : together to build the dismaxQuery , so I never get a match on the _exact fields: The query parser (even the dismax queryparser) does it's white space "chunking" before handing any input off to the analyzer for the appropriate field, so with [[ ?q=the doors ]] "the" and "doors" are going to get analyzed seperately ... which is why you see artist_exact:the^100.0 and artist_exact:doors^100.0 in your parsedquery -- *BUT* since you used KeywordTOkenizer at index time, you'll never get a match for either of those on any document (unles the artist is just "the" or "doors") : I've tried with other queries that don't include stopwords (smashing pumpkins, : for example), and in all cases, if I don't use " ", only the LAST word is used : with my _exact fields ( tried with 1, 2 and 3 words, always the same against my : _exact fields..) this "LAST word" part doesn't make sense to me ... you can see "the" making it into your query on the *_exact fields in the first DisjunctionMaxQuery, do you have toStrings for these other queries we could see to understand what you mean? -Hoss
