Due to a bug (or poorly designed feature), you need to explicitly include a non-negative query term in a purely negative sub-query. Usually this means using *:* to select all documents. Note that the use of parentheses introduces a sub-query. So, (-persons:*) s.b. (*:* -persons:*).
-- Jack Krupansky On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Salman Ansari <salman.rah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think what I am asking should be easy to do but for some reasons I am > facing issues in making that happen. The issue is that I want > include/exclude some fields from my Solr query. All the fields that I need > to include are multi valued int fields. When I include the fields I have > the following query > > http:// > > [MySolrServer]/solr/[Collection]/select?q=(persons:*)AND(places:*)AND(orgs:*) > This does return the desired result. However, when I negate the values > > http:// > > [MySolrServer]/solr/[Collection]/select?q=(-persons:*)AND(-places:*)AND(-orgs:*) > This returns 0 documents although there are a lot of documents that have > all those fields empty. > > Any ideas why this is happening? > > Appreciate any comments/feedback. > > Regards, > Salman >
