> 2. If send solr the following query: > q=*:* > > I get nothing just: > <response><result > name="response" numFound="0" start="0" > maxScore="0.0"/><lst > name="highlighting"/></response> > > Would appreciate some insight into what is going on.
If you are using dismax as query parser, then *:* won't function as match all docs query. To retrieve all docs - with dismax - use q.alt=*:* parameter. Also, adding debugQuery=on will display information about parsed query.