I mean it's a known bug. Hostetter AND (-chris *:*)
Should do the trick. Depending on your request. NAME:(-chris *:*) -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Sauts [mailto:patrick.via...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:57 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Weird behaviors with not operators. Maybe this will answer your question http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ Why does 'foo AND -baz' match docs, but 'foo AND (-bar)' doesn't ? Boolean queries must have at least one "positive" expression (ie; MUST or SHOULD) in order to match. Solr tries to help with this, and if asked to execute a BooleanQuery that does contains only negatived clauses _at the topmost level_, it adds a match all docs query (ie: *:*) If the top level BoolenQuery contains somewhere inside of it a nested BooleanQuery which contains only negated clauses, that nested query will not be modified, and it (by definition) an't match any documents -- if it is required, that means the outer query will not match. More Detail: * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-80 * https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-solr-user/201006.mbox/%3Cal pine.deb.1.10.1006011609080.29...@radix.cryptio.net%3E Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:04 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Weird behaviors with not operators. : I'm crashing into a weird behavior with - operators. I went ahead and added a FAQ on this using some text from a previous nearly identical email ... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#Why_does_.27foo_AND_-baz.27_match_docs.2C_b ut_.27foo_AND_.28-bar.29.27_doesn.27t_.3F please reply if you have followup questions. -Hoss
