dismax does not work with a=*:*
defType=dismax&q=*:* no hits
You need to switch this to:
defType=dismax&q.alt=*:* no hits
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are qf_dismax and pf_dismax? They are meaningless to
> Solr. Try adding &debugQuery=on to your URL and you'll
> see the parsed query, which helps a lot here....
>
> If you change these to the proper dismax values (qf and pf)
> you'll get beter results. As it is, I think you'll see output like:
>
> <str name="parsedquery">+() ()</str>
>
> showing that your query isn't actually going against
> any fields....
>
> Best
> Erick
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Naomi Dushay <ndus...@stanford.edu> wrote:
>> I found a weird behavior with the Solr defType argument, perhaps with
>> respect to default queries?
>>
>> defType=dismax&q=*:* no hits
>>
>> q={!defType=dismax}*:* hits
>>
>> defType=dismax hits
>>
>>
>> Here is the request handler, which I explicitly indicate:
>>
>> <requestHandler name="search" class="solr.SearchHandler" default="true">
>> <lst name="defaults">
>> <str name="defType">lucene</str>
>>
>> <!-- lucene params -->
>> <str name="df">has_model_s</str>
>> <str name="q.op">AND</str>
>>
>> <!-- dismax params -->
>> <str name="mm"> 2<-1 5<-2 6<90% </str>
>> <str name="q.alt">*:*</str>
>> <str name="qf_dismax">id^0.8 id_t^0.8 title_t^0.3 mods_t^0.2
>> text</str>
>> <str name="pf_dismax">id^0.9 id_t^0.9 title_t^0.5 mods_t^0.2
>> text</str>
>> <int name="ps">100</int>
>> <float name="tie">0.01</float>
>> </requestHandler>
>>
>>
>> Solr Specification Version: 1.4.0
>> Solr Implementation Version: 1.4.0 833479 - grantingersoll - 2009-11-06
>> 12:33:40
>> Lucene Specification Version: 2.9.1
>> Lucene Implementation Version: 2.9.1 832363 - 2009-11-03 04:37:25
>>
>> - Naomi
>>
>
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