Small Correction in the mail above: attachmentType is managed-schema is: <field name="attachmentType" type="text_general" multiValued="false" indexed ="true" stored="true"/>
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rushikesh Garadade <rushikeshgarad...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:43 PM Subject: exact Match and Contains To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Hi, I have field attachmentType in my collection whose schema is as follows: <field name="attachmentName" type="text_general" multiValued="false" indexed ="true" stored="true"/> when I search for attachmentType:application/pdf i.e. /select *?q=attachmentType:application/pdf * I get results [image: image.png] When I search for attachmentType:*application/pdf* i.e. /select? *q=attachmentType:*application/pdf** I get 0 results [image: image.png] I am not getting what I am missing. What I think is result of *query* is subset of result of **query** Please let me know what I am missing, Do let me know if you need any other details Thanks, Rushikesh Garadade