Re: Negating and grouping query terms

2007-08-10 Thread Yonik Seeley
This is a Lucene limitation that negative-only boolean queries do not match anything. Solr works around this limitation for the top level only. So when you do +foo (-bar) it won't match anything because the parens create a separate boolean query with only a single negative clause. +foo -bar wil

Negating and grouping query terms

2007-08-10 Thread Aaron Suggs
Hi all, I'm observing odd results when using parentheses to group two or more terms in a solr query, some of which are negated (by prefixing the term with '-' or 'NOT ') For example, in the current stable version of solr, I indexed the accompanying example docs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/solr/example/e