Hi! I'm quite new to Solr, I was recently asked to help out on a project where the previous "Solr-person" quit quite suddenly. I've noticed that some of our searches don't return the expected result, and I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
We've indexed a lot of names, and would like to search for a person in our system using these names. We previously used Oracle Text for this, and we experience that Solr is much faster. So far so good! :) But when we try to use wildcards things start to to wrong. We're using Solr 3.4, and I see that some of our problems are solved in 3.6. Ref SOLR-2438: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2438 But we would also like to be able to combine wildcards with fuzzy searches, and wildcards with a phonetic filter. I don't see anything about phonetic filters in SOLR-2438 or SOLR-2921. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2921) Is it possible to make the phonetic filters MultiTermAware? Regarding fuzzy queries, in Oracle Text I can search for "chr%" ("chr*" in Solr..) and find both christian and kristian. As far as I understand, this is not possible in Solr, WildcardQuery and FuzzyQuery cannot be combined. Is this correct, or have I misunderstood anything? Are there any workarounds or filter-combinations I can use to achieve the same result? I've seen people suggest using a boolean query to combine the two, but I don't really see how that would solve my "chr*"-problem. As I mentioned earlier I'm quite new to this, so I apologize if what I'm asking about only shows my ignorance.. Regards, Hågen
