I suspect nobody wants to broach this topic, this has to have come up before, but I can not find an authoritative answer. How does the Standard Query Parser evaluate boolean expressions? I have three fields, content, status and source_name. The expression
content:bement AND status:relevant yields 111 documents. The expression source_name:Web yields 78050168 documents. However, the expression content:bement AND status:relevant OR source_name:Web yields 111 documents. Can anybody describe the order of operation, operator priorities used in evaluating the above expression? It looks to me as if it takes the intersection of content:bement and status:relevant, then limits successive set operators to that set. Is that true? So any additional “OR” expressions will have no effect?
