String fields can be searched, but you have to give the complete string, or a wildcard. And the upper/lower case has to be right.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Xiao Li <shinelee.thew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have used Solr 3.4 for a long time. Recently, when I upgrade to Solr 4.0 > and reindex the whole data, I find that the fields which are specified as > string type can not be searched by q parameter. If I just change the type > to text_general, it works. So my question is for Solr 4.0, must I set the > field type of text_general for text search? -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
