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] org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute
INFO: [core0] webapp=null path=/select
params={q=condi*al&fq=url%3A%28%22%2F&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!
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