Try q=*:* -boolfield=false And it's not as costly as you might think, there's special handling for *:* queries. And if you put that in an fq clause instead, the result set will be put into the filter cache and be reused assuming you want to do this repeatedly.
BTW, Solr doesn't use strict Boolean logic, which may be a bit confusing. Google for Chris Hostetter's (Hossman) blog at Lucidwirks for a great explanation. And yes, your understanding of adding a new field is correct Best, Erick On Mon, May 25, 2020, 11:39 Chris Dempsey <cdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Solr and made an honest stab to finding this in info the docs. > > I'm working on an update to an existing large collection in Solr 7.7 to add > a BoolField to mark it as "soft deleted" or not. My understanding is that > updating the schema will mean the new field will only exist and have a > value (or the default value) for documents indexed after the change, > correct? If that's the case, is it possible to query for all documents that > have that field set to `true` or if that field is completely missing? If is > a Bad Idea(tm) from a performance or resource usage standpoint to use a > "where field X doesn't exist" query (i.e. am I going to end up running a > "table scan" if I do)? > > Thanks in advance! >
