Are you really trying to the following?
-Title:(Canada) +authorOrCreator:(mcdonald)
Otis
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Leonardo Santagada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:02:26 PM
> Subject: +fieldname sintax question
>
> On our search, we need to especify some search criteria in some search
> fields, the only way to do that for us has been using the default
> query handler (and inside each field we escape the characters that we
> don't want to influence the search, more or less what dismax does for
> the whole query). But this is not working
>
> Title:(NOT Canada) +authorOrCreator:(mcdonald)
>
> Matches a lot of documents, the first one having a title that doesn't
> contains Canada in the title (and many others that doesnt also).
>
> but:
>
> +Title:(NOT Canada) +authorOrCreator:(mcdonald)
>
> Matches exactly 0 docs.
>
> Why is that and how can we make solr search for a doc that does not
> contain canada and also does not contain mcdonald (and the default
> combinator can be either or or and).
>
> thanks in advance
>
> --
> Leonardo Santagada
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