The guilt trick is not the best thing to try on public mailing lists. :) The first thing that popped to my mind is to use 2 fields, where the second one contains the desrever string of the first one. The second idea is to use n-grams (if it's OK to tokenize), more specifically edge n-grams.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: A. Steven Anderson <a.steven.ander...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 3:04:32 PM > Subject: Re: leading and trailing wildcard query > > No thoughts on this? Really!? > > I would hate to admit to my Oracle DBE that Solr can't be customized to do a > common query that a relational database can do. :-( > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, A. Steven Anderson < > a.steven.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've scoured the archives and JIRA , but the answer to my question is just > > not clear to me. > > > > With all the new Solr 1.4 features, is there any way to do a leading and > > trailing wildcard query on an *untokenized* field? > > > > e.g. q=myfield:*abc* would return a doc with myfield=xxxabcxxx > > > > Yes, I know how expensive such a query would be, but we have the user > > requirement, nonetheless. > > > > If not, any suggestions on how to implement a custom solution using Solr? > > Using an external data structure? > > > > > -- > A. Steven Anderson
