On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Simon Wistow <si...@thegestalt.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind said: >> This is what I do instead, to rewrite the query to mean the same thing but >> not give the lucene query parser trouble: >> >> fq=( (*:* AND -type:foo) OR restriction_id:1) >> >> "*:*" means "everything", so (*:* AND -type:foo) means the same thing as >> just "-type:foo", but can get around the lucene query parsers troubles. >> >> So that might work for you. > > Thanks for confirming my suspicions. > > Unfortunately I've tried that as well and, whilst it works > it's also unbelievably slow (~30s query time).
It really shouldn't be that slow... how many documents are in your index, and how many match -type:foo? bq. Would writing my own Query Parser help here? Nope. That's just syntax. If filters of the form ( (*:* AND -type:foo) OR restriction_id:1) are much slower (to the point where it causes you problems) and filters of the form type:foo) OR restriction_id:1 are fast, then you could index the negation of the type field as well (if you know all the types) For instance, in a doc, index two type fields: type:bar type_not:foo Or if "type" is multi-valued, you could index both foo and NOT_foo in the same field. Then you could express the filter as type_not:foo OR restriction_id:1 or type:NOT_foo OR restriction_id:1 -Yonik http://www.lucenerevolution.org -- Lucene/Solr User Conference, May 25-26, San Francisco
