Because leading negative clauses don't work. The (*:* AND x) syntax means "select everything AND also select x".
You could also do (+category:xyz +price:[100 TO *]) -category:xyz On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Satish Kumar <satish.kumar.just.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks Ahmet. > > (+category:xyz +price:[100 TO *]) (+*:* -category:xyz) > why do we have to use (+*:* -category:xyz) instead of -category:xyz? > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > How do I implement a requirement like "if category is xyz, >> > the price should >> > be greater than 100 for inclusion in the result set". >> > >> > In other words, the result set should contain: >> > - all matching documents with category value not xyz >> > - all matching documents with category value xyz and price >> > > 100 >> > >> > I was thinking something like fq=(-category:xyz OR >> > (category:xyz AND price > >> > 100)) >> > >> > this doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions will be greatly >> > appreciated. >> >> Something like this should work: >> (+category:xyz +price:[100 TO *]) (+*:* -category:xyz) >> >> and your price field must be one of the trie based fields. >> >> >> >> > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
