Looks like you're being hit by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3377, which is marked as fixed in 4.0, but not any version of 3.x
Erik On Dec 28, 2012, at 13:06 , François Schiettecatte wrote: > Hi > > Just ran into this bug while playing around with 3.6. Using edismax and > entering a a search like this "(text:foobar)" causes the query parser to > mangle the query as shown by the results below. Adding a space after the > first paren solves this. I checked 3.6.1 and get the same issue. I recall an > issue like this in 3.6.0 but thought it was quashed in 3.6.1? > > > <response> > <lst name="responseHeader"> > <int name="status">0</int> > <int name="QTime">2</int> > <lst name="params"> > <str name="mm">1</str> > <str name="sort">score desc, prefix_sort desc</str> > <str name="indent">on</str> > <str name="qf">number^5 title^3 text</str> > <str name="wt">standard</str> > <str name="version">2.2</str> > <str name="rows">10</str> > <str name="defType">edismax</str> > <str name="pf">text^2</str> > <str name="fl">*,score</str> > <str name="debugQuery">on</str> > <str name="start">0</str> > <str name="q">(text:foobar)</str> > <str name="qt">search</str> > <str name="ps">100000</str> > </lst> > </lst> > <result name="response" numFound="0" start="0" maxScore="0.0"/> > <lst name="debug"> > <str name="rawquerystring">(text:foobar)</str> > <str name="querystring">(text:foobar)</str> > <str name="parsedquery"> > +DisjunctionMaxQuery((text:textfoobar | title:textfoobar^3.0 | > number:text:foobar^5.0)) () > </str> > <str name="parsedquery_toString"> > +(text:textfoobar | title:textfoobar^3.0 | number:text:foobar^5.0) () > </str> > <lst name="explain"/> > <str name="QParser">ExtendedDismaxQParser</str> > > > Cheers > > François