Excuse me, what's the hyphen before the field name 'date_added_solr'? Is this some kind of new query format that I didn't know?
<delete><query>-date_added_solr:[* TO *]</query></delete>' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Lynch" <ihas...@gmail.com> To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:12 AM Subject: Delete by query issue > Hi, > I am trying to delete all documents that have null values for a certain > field. To that effect I can see all of the documents I want to delete by > doing this query: > -date_added_solr:[* TO *] > > This returns about 32,000 documents. > > However, when I try to put that into a curl call, no documents get deleted: > curl http://localhost:8985/solr/newsblog/update?commit=true -H > "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>-date_added_solr:[* > TO *]</query></delete>' > > Solr responds with: > <response> > <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int > name="QTime">364</int></lst> > </response> > > But nothing happens, even if I explicitly issue a commit afterward. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %<&b6G$J0T.'$$'d(l/f,r!C Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3093 - Release Date: 08/25/10 14:34:00
