For now I need them, I will however most likely (as suggested by Ahmet Arslan),
create another boolean field to get rid of them, just simply due to the fact
that I am switching to Solr 1.4 frange queries.
On the topic of frange queries, is there a way to simulate the date range
wildcards here?
> > ((valid_from:[* TO 2010-04-29T10:34:12Z]) AND
> > (valid_till:[2010-04-29T10:34:12Z TO *])) OR ((*:*
> > -valid_from:[* TO *]) AND (*:* -valid_till:[* TO *])))
> >
> > I use the empty checks for datasets which do not have a
> > valid from/till range.
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to get this any