Hi, Using Solr 1.4 I wanted to construct a query that returns documents that have a particular field value or are missing the field. The first thing I came up with was:
field1:particularvalue OR -field1:[* TO *] It turns out the -field1:[* TO *] was being ignored. If particularvalue wasn't found, for instance, it returned 0 hits. Well after a lot of experimentation I found a query that works as expected: field1:particularvalue OR (*:* AND -field1:[* TO *]) It seems like a hack though. Am I approaching this the wrong way? What's the recommended way for doing this type of search? In case it matters, field1's fieldType is: <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/> And it's actually a dynamic field defined like this: <dynamicField name="*_string" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
