And, it would make for slow queries, as the more fields you query, the worse performance gets.
Having said that, you can query multiple fields using the edismax query parser, with it qf param. Upayavira On Wed, Jan 16, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Semi-hard-coded. > > In QueryParserBase.java: > > protected Query getWildcardQuery(String field, String termStr) throws > ParseException > { > if ("*".equals(field)) { > if ("*".equals(termStr)) return newMatchAllDocsQuery(); > > Otherwise, if you try *:x, "*" is an undefined field. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:06 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Is *:* the only possible search with * on the left-hand-side? > > Hello, > > Is *:* hardcoded somewhere as a unique special pattern or is there > actually > a class of queries with *:'something'? > > I tried searching for it, but I suspect this is not the patterns most > tokenizers will actually index as searchable. :-) > > Regards, > Alex. > > Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) >