Hi Andrew, Is this "starts with letter _" query going to be common in your system? If so, may I suggest you add another field that stored just the initial letter and stick that in fq? That will get rid of a single-char prefix wildcard query, which is *expensive*! (read: slow!)
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Andrew McCombe <eupe...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:21:48 AM > Subject: Re: Filter query with wildcard, fq=a* > > Hi > > It has now introduced a new issue. I am now getting results for my > query but they are not what I wanted. I'm using a Dismax handler and > am trying to filter a result set with a filter query: > > http://localhost:8180/solr/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=i+love&start=0&rows=30&fl=*%2Cscore&qt=dismax&wt=standard&fq=artistText:e* > > This is bringing results with 'e' or 'E' as the first letter and with > 'e' or 'E' as the first letter after whitespace. e.g, Eric Prydz, > Marc Et Claude. > > Looking at the solr wiki it seems that I am using the fq param to > boost the results and not filter them. Is there a way to achieve the > required result, i.e, filtering the result set for all artistText > beginning with 'E'? > > Regards > Andrew > > > > 2009/4/30 Andrew McCombe > > > > Hi > > > > I've sorted it. Wildcard term must be lowercase to get results. > > > > Thanks > > Andrew > > > > 2009/4/30 Andrew McCombe > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> I have half a million records indexed and need to filter results on a term > >> by > the first letter. For Example the search term is 'I love' and returns a few > thousand records. I need to filter these results for all artists beginning > with > 'A'. > >> > >> I've tried: > >> 'fq=artistText:A*' > >> > >> But then get no results. > >> > >> Can someone point me in the right direction please? > >> > >> Regards > >> Andrew > >
