Oh i see, i overlooked your first query. A query with one term that is negated will yield zero results, it doesn't return all documents because nothing matches. It's, if i remember correctly, the same as when you're looking for a field that doesn't have a value: q=-field:[* TO *].
> My fault for putting in the quotes in the email, I actually don't have > tests in my quotes, just tried again to make sure. > > And I always get 0 results on a pure negative Solr 1.4.1 dismax query. I > think it does not actually work? > > On 3/17/2011 3:52 PM, Markus Jelsma wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It works just as expected, but not in a phrase query. Get rid of your > > quotes and you'll be fine. > > > > Cheers, > > > >> Should 1.4.1 dismax query parser be able to handle pure negative queries > >> like: > >> > >> &q="-foo" > >> &q="-foo -bar" > >> > >> It kind of seems to me trying it out that it can NOT. Can anyone else > >> verify? The documentation I can find doesn't say one way or another. > >> Which is odd because the documentation for straight solr-lucene query > >> parser athttp://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax suggests that > >> straight solr-lucene query parser_can_ handle pure negative. That > >> seems odd that solr-lucene Q.P. can, but dismax can't? Maybe I'm > >> misinterpreting or misunderstanding my experimental results.
