Search for *:* -body:*

I do this pretty often.

wunder
Walter Underwood
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http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)

> On Jul 28, 2021, at 8:48 AM, mtn search <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Some documents in my collection have an empty body field.
>    "body":"",
> 
> I am looking for a query to find docs with a body field with this "empty"
> value.
> 
> Normally, I might run with a filter
>    fq=-body:*
> 
> On this large set of shards that I am querying it times out with the
> wildcard.  On smaller sets, it shows when there is no body field.
> 
> Other attempts at representing a value of "" in the filter query have not
> worked.
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew

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