it does seem a little weird, but q.alt will get what you want:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin#q.alt
hth,
rc
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jason Chaffee <jchaf...@ebates.com> wrote:
> Can you shed some light on what you did to configure it to handle *:*?
> I have the same issue that I need it to work for faceting, but I do need
> the dismax abilities as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Mandel [mailto:mark.man...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:30 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: *:* query with dismax
>
> This is exactly what should be happening, as the dismax parser doesn't
> understand regular query syntax (and for good reason too). This tripped
> me
> up as well when I first started using dismax.
>
> Solution for me was to comfigure the handler to use *:* when the query
> is
> empty, so that you can still get back a full result set if you need it,
> say
> for faceting.
>
> HTH
>
> Mark
> On May 7, 2011 9:22 AM, "Jason Chaffee" <jchaf...@ebates.com> wrote:
>> I am using dismax and trying to use q=*:* to return all indexed
>> documents. However, it is always returning 0 found.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I used the default select (not dismax) handler and try q=*:* then
> it
>> returns all documents.
>>
>>
>>
>> There is nothing in the logs to indicate why this happening.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any clues?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
