'conditional' seems to be stemmed into the word 'condit' in the index. So your results are normal.
As you said, mixing wildcards searching and stemmed fields is not recommanded. Ludovic. 2011/4/1 Melanie Drake [via Lucene] < ml-node+2763787-65059921-383...@n3.nabble.com> > I noticed an inconsistency in results when performing wildcard searches. > When searching on variations of "conditional" the following results > occurred: > > conditional - hits > conditional* - hits > conditi* - hits > condit* - hits > con*al - no hits > c?nditional - no hits > c*ld - hits (on a different word: "child") > > I don't see an obvious pattern to when the wildcard searches work. > > In a response to another post, I read that stemming will cause wildcard > searches to behave strangely. I believe we may be using stemming, although > the only configuration I see is the list of words protected against stemming > defined in protwords.txt. > > Also, I'm not sure if it's helpful, but I see a vague Solr error in my > server log (jboss) any time I perform a search (whether successful or not): > ERROR [STDERR] <timestamp> org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute > INFO: [core0] webapp=null path=/select > params={q=condi*al&fq=url%3A%28%22%2F<long list of application-specific IDs > used for filtering>&fl=score&hl=true&hl.fragsize=50&hl.snippets=3} hits=0 > status=0 QTime=0 > > The developer who implemented our search solution is no longer with our > company, so I'm just looking for any information useful to investigate this > issue. I apologize if I ommitted any necessary information. Thanks! > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/wildcard-search-inconsistencies-tp2763787p2763787.html > To start a new topic under Solr - User, email > ml-node+472068-1765922688-383...@n3.nabble.com > To unsubscribe from Solr - User, click > here<http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=472068&code=Ym91dHJvc2xAZ21haWwuY29tfDQ3MjA2OHw0Mzk2MDUxNjE=>. > > ----- Jouve France. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/wildcard-search-inconsistencies-tp2763787p2763841.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.