Actually, I believe the correct answer is an empty result set.

On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Erik Hatcher wrote:

On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Peter Gelderbloem wrote:

I wonder what would happen


An exception :)



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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

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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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