The sense of "fq" clauses is "for all the docs that match my primary query, only show the ones that match the fq clause". There's no primary query to work with.
If you really need this capability, you can add this to the <defaults> section of your request handler in solrconfig.xml <str name="q">*:*</str> The oob request handler is <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler"> Best, Erick On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:41 PM, RadhaJayalakshmi < rlakshminaraya...@inautix.co.in> wrote: > Hi, > I am preparing a solr query. in that i am only giving fq parameter .. I > dont > give any q parameter.. > If i exeucte such query, where only it is having fq, it is not returning > any > docs. in the sense it is returning 0 docs. > So, is it always mandatory to have q parameter in solr query? > if so, then i think i should have something like > q=*:* and fq=field:value > > > Please explain > > Thanks > Radha > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-have-only-fq-in-my-solr-query-tp4103429.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >