I couldn't even get the bq= to work with negated queries, although with edismax, negated queries work with just q=-term
Works: /solr/select?qt=edismax&q=-red Here is the failed attempt with dismax /solr/select?qt=dismax&rows=1&indent=true&q=-red&bq=*:*^0.001&echoParams=all&debugQuery=true { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":20, "params":{ "mm":"2<-1 5<-2 6<90%", "pf":"title^10.0 sbody^2.0", "echoParams":"all", "tie":"0.01", "qf":"title^10.0 sbody^2.0 tags^1.0 text^1.0", "q.alt":"*:*", "hl.fl":"body", "wt":"json", "ps":"100", "defType":"dismax", "bq":"*:*^0.001", "echoParams":"all", "debugQuery":"true", "indent":"true", "q":"-red", "qt":"dismax", "rows":"1"}}, "response":{"numFound":0,"start":0,"docs":[] }, "debug":{ "rawquerystring":"-red", "querystring":"-red", "parsedquery":"+(-DisjunctionMaxQuery((tags:red | text:red | title:red^10.0 | sbody:red^2.0)~0.01)) DisjunctionMaxQuery((title:red^10.0 | sbody:red^2.0)~0.01) MatchAllDocsQuery(*:*^0.0010)", "parsedquery_toString":"+(-(tags:red | text:red | title:red^10.0 | sbody:red^2.0)~0.01) (title:red^10.0 | sbody:red^2.0)~0.01 *:*^0.0010", "explain":{}, "QParser":"DisMaxQParser", "altquerystring":null, "boost_queries":["*:*^0.001"], "parsed_boost_queries":["MatchAllDocsQuery(*:*^0.0010)"], "boostfuncs":null, "timing":{ "time":20.0, "prepare":{ "time":19.0, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent":{ "time":19.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.FacetComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.MoreLikeThisComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.StatsComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.DebugComponent":{ "time":0.0}}, "process":{ "time":1.0, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.FacetComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.MoreLikeThisComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.StatsComponent":{ "time":0.0}, "org.apache.solr.handler.component.DebugComponent":{ "time":1.0}}}}} On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 23:35, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : Ah, dismax doesn't support top-level NOT query. > > Hmm, yeah i don' think support for purely negated queries was ever added > to dismax. > > I'm pretty sure that as a workarround you can use add > something like... > bq=*:*^0.001 > ...to your query. based on the dismax structure, that should allow purely > negative queries to work. > > > > -Hoss > >