On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Joe Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to decide if this is a solr or a lucene problem, using solr > 1.3: > > take this example -- > > (-productName:"whatever") OR (anotherField:"Johnny") > > I would expect to get back records that have anotherField=Johnny, but > also, any records that don't have 'whatever' as the productName.
Lucene can't really do pure negative queries... Solr currently only allows negative queries at the top level... so the sub-query (-productName:"whatever") matches nothing. Try (*:* -productName:"whatever") OR (anotherField:"Johnny") -Yonik
