Querying by a field value or if field doesn't exist

[Vasu Y]

Hi,
 I want to query for all documents where field "field1" contains a value
"value1" or the document doesn't contain the field "field1" at all.


I tried the query: "field1:value1 OR -field1:[* TO *]" and it didn't return
anything.


When I try them separately they work fine; "field1:value1" or the negative
query ("-field1:[* TO *]"), they work as desired.

Thanks,
Vasu