Thanks Erick and Andrea!  If my default operator is OR,  fq=
my_text_field:(Jurassic park the movie)  is equivalent to
my_text_field:(Jurassic
OR park OR the OR movie)? That make sense.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Andrea Gazzarini <a.gazzar...@sease.io>
wrote:

> The syntax is valid in all those three examples, the right one depends on
> what you need.
>
> The first query executes a proximity search (you can think to a phrase
> search, for simplicity) so it returns no result because probably you don't
> have any matching docs with that whole literal.
>
> The second is querying the my_text_field for all terms which compose the
> value between parenthesis. You can think to a query where each term is an
> optional clause, something like mytextfield:jurassic OR mytextfiekd:park...
> (it's not exactly an OR but this could give you the idea=
>
> The third example is not doing what you think. My_text_field is used only
> with the first term (Jurassic) while the others are using the default
> field. Something like mytextfield:jurassic OR defaultfield:park OR
> defaultfield:the.... That's the reason  you have so many results (I guess
> the default field is a catch-all field)
>
> Sorry for typos I'm using my mobile
>
> Andrea
>
> Il mer 11 lug 2018, 17:54 Wei <weiwan...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running filter query on a field of text_general type and see
> > completely different results for the following queries:
> >
> >    fq= my_text_field:"Jurassic park the movie"               returns 0
> > result
> >
> >    fq= my_text_field:(Jurassic park the movie)               returns 20
> > result
> >
> >    fq= my_text_field:Jurassic park the movie                  returns
> > thousands of results
> >
> >
> > Which one is the correct syntax? I am confused why the first query
> doesn't
> > have any match at all.  I also thought 2 and 3 are the same, but turns
> out
> > quite different.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wei
> >
>

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