Take a look at admin/analysis on the text_general type You'll see that StandardTokenizer is breaking the input strings up into individual tokens on the colons and hyphens, so 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z becomes the tokens 2010 01 27T00 00 00Z
admin/analysis should be your first reflex when you encounter things like this <G>... Best Erick On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> We're having difficulty with some wildcard searches in Solr >> 4.0Beta. We're using a copyField to write a "tdate" to a >> "text_general" field. We are using the default definition >> for the "text_general" field type. >> >> <field name="my_date" type="tdate" >> indexed="true" stored="true" /> >> <field name="date_text" >> type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" /> >> >> <copyField source="my_date" >> dest="date_text"/> >> >> Here's the sample data it holds: >> >> 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z >> 2010-01-28T00:00:00Z >> 2010-01-31T00:00:00Z >> >> We run these queries and they return the expected results: >> >> date_text:"2010*" >> date_text:"2010-*" >> date_text:"2010-01*" >> date_text:"2010-01-*" >> >> However, when we run these, they return nothing. What are we >> doing wrong? >> >> date_text:"*-01-27" >> date_text:"2010-*-27" >> date_text:"2010-01-27*" > > I think in your case you need to use string type instead of text_general. > > <field name="date_text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" />
