On Jul 18, 2011, at 19:15 , Naomi Dushay wrote: > I found a weird behavior with the Solr defType argument, perhaps with > respect to default queries? > > q={!defType=dismax}*:* hits
this is the confusing one. defType is a Solr request parameter, but not something that works as a "local" (inside the {!....} brackets) parameter. Confusing, indeed. But just not how local params/defType works at the moment. So, with defType being ignored in those curly brackets, you're getting the default "lucene" query parser. Check it out with debugQuery=true and see how queries parse. Erik