I just encountered an unexpected behavior in query parser. So, if you pass in a query that is multiple terms, like "cat hat", the query that is returned uses an or between the two term searches, instead of an and. That is, the query will return all documents with the given field containing either "cat" or "hat". Now, I know about phrase queries, using "\"cat hat\"", and I know about +, "+cat +hat". So there are ways to work around the problem- the behavior was just unintuitive for me and several others. I was just wondering what the logic was for defaulting to or instead of and.
I have googled the mailing list archives and didn't find anything. But if this has been discussed to death, please just point me to the threads in the archive. rather than stirring up some old flame war. Or just tell me what to google for (the terms I've tried haven't yielded anything useful). Thanks. Brian
