This is what I thought, but for some reason I wasn't able to get it to work before. Thus, I sent the email.
However, maybe I forgot to not specify q because it is working fine for me now. Thanks everyone. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Casson [mailto:rob.cas...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 5/6/2011 7:34 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: *:* query with dismax it does seem a little weird, but q.alt will get what you want: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin#q.alt hth, rc On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jason Chaffee <jchaf...@ebates.com> wrote: > Can you shed some light on what you did to configure it to handle *:*? > I have the same issue that I need it to work for faceting, but I do need > the dismax abilities as well. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Mandel [mailto:mark.man...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:30 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: *:* query with dismax > > This is exactly what should be happening, as the dismax parser doesn't > understand regular query syntax (and for good reason too). This tripped > me > up as well when I first started using dismax. > > Solution for me was to comfigure the handler to use *:* when the query > is > empty, so that you can still get back a full result set if you need it, > say > for faceting. > > HTH > > Mark > On May 7, 2011 9:22 AM, "Jason Chaffee" <jchaf...@ebates.com> wrote: >> I am using dismax and trying to use q=*:* to return all indexed >> documents. However, it is always returning 0 found. >> >> >> >> If I used the default select (not dismax) handler and try q=*:* then > it >> returns all documents. >> >> >> >> There is nothing in the logs to indicate why this happening. >> >> >> >> Does anyone have any clues? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Jason >> >