Oops... I take that back! After I clicked Send I realized that this is the Lucene list - what I said is true for Solr queries, but that is because Solr added a "hack" to do things properly, but the Lucene query parser doesn't have that hack, so Erick is correct.
-- Jack Krupansky On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The pure negative query should work fine as a top level query - it's just > when nested as a sub-query within parentheses that it misbehaves. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Should be, but it's a bit confusing because the query syntax is not >> pure boolean, >> so there's no set to take away the docs with entries in field 1, you need >> the >> match all docs bit, i.e. >> *:* -field1:[* TO *] >> >> (That's asterisk:asterisk -field1:[* TO *] in case the silly list >> interprets the asterisks >> as markup) >> >> There's some special magic in filter query processing to handle this >> case, but >> not in the main query parser. >> >> Best, >> Erick >> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Clemens Wyss DEV <clemens...@mysign.ch> >> wrote: >> > Say I wanted to find documents which have no content in "field1" (or >> dosuments that have no field 'field1'), wouldn't that be the following >> query? >> > -field1:[* TO *] >> > >> > Thanks for you help >> > Clemens >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> >
