Wouldn't this be: *:* AND "negative query" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yonik Seeley Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:23 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: How to delete records that don't contain a field?
On Dec 3, 2007 5:22 PM, Jeff Leedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to post a delete query using curl > to delete all records that do not contain a certain field--something > like > this: > > curl http://localhost:8080/solr/update --data-binary > '<delete><query>-_title:[* TO *]</query></delete>' -H > 'Content-type:text/xml; charset=utf-8' > > The minus syntax seems to return the correct list of ids (that is, all > records that do not contain the "_title" field) when I use the Solr > administrative console to do the above query, so I'm wondering if Solr > just doesn't support this type of delete. Not yet... it makes sense to support this in the future though. -Yonik
