If all you're doing is filtering (browsing by facets perhaps), it's perfectly
fine to have q=*:*. MatchAllDocsQuery is fast (and would be cached anyway), so
use *:* as appropriate without worries.
Erik
On Nov 22, 2011, at 07:18 , pravesh wrote:
> Usually,
>
> Use the 'q' parameter to search for the free text values entered by the
> users (where you might want to parse the query and/or apply
> boosting/phrase-sloppy, minimum match,tie etc )
>
> Use the 'fq' to limit the searches to certain criterias like location,
> date-ranges etc.
>
> Also, avoid using the q=*:* as it implicitly translates to matchalldocsquery
>
> Regds
> Pravesh
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