I wonder what would happen
Peter Gelderbloem -----Original Message-----
From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 July 2005 17:36
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Quick newbie question
On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote:
> Of course you can do the inverse of what Erik said.
> That is search for a term that you know is not in the index and use
> the NOT operator.
Ummm... no you can't. A purely negative query is not allowed with
Lucene.
Erik
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Jul 27, 2005 10:49 AM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Quick newbie question
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>
> On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Federico Tonioni wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all!
>> I have just a simple question
>>
>> How can I retrieve all documents in an index by using QueryParser?
>> I thought
>>
>> Query query = QueryParser.parse("*", "contents",
>> new StandardAnalyzer());
>>
>> might be the solution, but it's not:)
>>
>
> In general, you can't. Many have used a technique of indexing a
> single field with the same value for all documents and done a query
> for field:value to find all documents.
>
> Erik
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