: Here's the problem: the standard Solr parser is a little weird about : negative queries. The way to make this work is to say : *:* AND -field:[* TO *]
the default parser actually works ok ... it's a bug specific to deletion... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-381 -Hoss -- http://lucenerevolution.org/ ... October 7-8, Boston http://bit.ly/stump-hoss ... Stump The Chump!