Leading off with a negation does weird things. Try

(*:* AND NOT categoryid:387602) OR mfrid:18678

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Steve <compconsult...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I search for
>
> q=!categoryid:3876021, solr correctly tells me there are two million plus 
> hits.
>
> If I search for
>
> q=mfrid:18678, solr tell me there are 50,314 hits
>
> I want to combine those two results, so I try
>
> q=!categoryid:3876021 OR mfrid:18678
>
> I would have expected two million plus results, instead, I get 50,314.
>
> Is there a way to do a union of results from searching two different fields?
>
> Curiously, if I remove the ! I do get the union of the results. But I want 
> all categories except that one, plus all mfr id I specified.

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