At the risk of committing a gaffe, I recently did a blog post about queries and "multi term aware" capabilities newly added to Solr. The short form is that the recurring problem of wildcard queries (and some other types, e.g. range) not automatically lower-casing (or accent folding or a few others) has changed as of Solr 3.6 (i.e. 3x ) and Solr 4.0. The app no longer has to apply certain transformations to get matches to occur.
Here's the blog post: http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/11/29/whats-with-lowercasing-wildcard-multiterm-queries-in-solr/ Here's the Wiki page for Solr: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MultitermQueryAnalysis FWIW Erick
