: when disabling the facet, the query works perfectly. I understand that : either defType parameter or q.myalias.qf parameters, do not affect the : facet query (which always runs with lucene parser??)
a top level defType param only applies to the "q" param. This is by design. "defType" is special and only applies to hte "main" query where it is being evaluated, in order to make it easier to specify the type of parser to use on input straight from end users -- things like fq, facet.query, and any recursively specified query strings (ie: via other nested local params), etc, are not affected by defType. These other params are almost always programatically generated, so it's typically easy to use an explicit "type" local param to change the parser they use (if they looked at defType it would cause all sorts of confusing behavior for most users who just wanted to cahnge the parser for the main query) -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
