thanks a lot for your advice, I'll try that. Best regards, Elisabeth
2012/1/11 Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > Hmmm, Once the data is included in the catch-all, it's indistinguishable > from > all the rest of the data, so I don't see how you could do this. A clause > like: > -excludeField:[* TO *] would exclude all documents that had any data in > the field so that's probably not what you want..... > > Could you approach it the other way? Do NOT put the special field in > the catch-all field in the first place, but massage the input to add > a clause there? I.e. your "usual" case would have > catchall:<all your terms> exclude_field:<all your terms>, but your > special one would just be catchall:<all your terms>. > > You could set up request handlers to do this under the covers, so your > queries would really be > ...solr/usual?q=<all your terms> > ...solr/special?q=<all your terms> > and two different request handlers (edismax-style I'm thinking) > would differ only by the "qf" field containing or not containing > your special field..... > > the other way, of course, would be to have a second catch-all > field that didn't have your special field, then use one or the other > depending, but as you say that would increase the size of your > index... > > Best > Erick > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:47 AM, elisabeth benoit > <elisaelisael...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a catchall field, and I need to do some request in all fields of > > that catchall field, minus one. To avoid duplicating my index, I'd like > to > > know if there is a way to use my catch field while excluding that one > field. > > > > Thanks, > > Elisabeth >
