i'm using this: <delete><query>*:* -[* TO *]</query></delete>
which is what lance suggested..works just fine. fyi: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-381 On Dec 3, 2007 8:09 PM, Norskog, Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
