Hi, Chris Hostetter wrote:
AND, OR, and NOT are just syntactic-sugar for modifying the MUST, MUST_NOT, and SHOULD. The default op of "OR" only affects the first clause of your query (R) because it doesn't have any modifiers --
Thanks for pointing that out!
-Sascha
the second clause has that NOT modifier so your query is effectivley... topic:R -topic:[* TO *] ...which by definition can't match anything. -Hoss