Niraj Alok writes: > Hi, > > When I am putting the query as 'a not b' there are some documents coming up > which have 'b' as well. > > I am searching on 3 fields using a MultiFieldQueryParser and while debugging > the query is also getting shown as > (field1:a -field1:b) (field2:a -field2:b) (field3:a -field3:b) > > Yet the results have documents which contain 'b' terms as well. > That searches for documents having a in field1 but not b in field1 OR a in field2 but not b in field2 ...
so a document having one field with a but without b will be found even if it contains b in some other field. > > Please could you suggest what the problem could be? > You need a query (field1:a OR field2:b OR field3:c) -(field1:b OR field2:b OR field3:c) I'm not familliar with MFQP, so I cannot say if it can help you with that. Morus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
