: Thanks for this. Query time dramatically reduced to 27ms with this.
to understand what is going on, use debugQuery=true with each of those
examples and look at the query toString info.
*:* is the one and only true syntax (in any solr QParser that i know
of) for "find all docs" efficiently.
q=*
or q=*.*
are (if i'm not mistaken) a prefix query and a wildcard query
(respectively) against the defualt search field
("*" is a prefix query matching all terms that start with the empty
string -- so all terms. which means it should matchany doc that has
any term in the default search field -- which in many indexes
will be all docs, but is a very inefficient and easily falible way to try
and match all docs)
-Hoss
