Thanks for the quick reply. The real data is an representation of an HTML element "body div.class1 div.b.a", My goal is to match documents by css selector i.e ".class1 .a.b"
The field I'm querying on is a tokenzied texts field. The post filter takes the doc value of the field (which is not tokenized - whole string), transforms it a bit, and matches it to some input regex. My alternative is to create a non tokenzied copy field, create a custom filter that makes the transformation on index time and use regular regex query on it. Writing the post filter was my first choice since I wanted to avoid copying data and I'm not sure about regular regex query performance. The collection I'm querying is quite huge. -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html