Hello, Arun. Please check the great explanation generously provided by Shawn. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/NegativeQueryProblems
Enjoy. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:54 AM Arun Kumar <d.i.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using solr(v8.10.1) in one of my project and have recently noticed > that when executing a query with negative term query enclosed in > parentheses as shown below with q.op as AND it returns 0 results. > > *(-title:legend AND -title:Urban) OR releaseYear:[1900 TO 2022]* > > When enabling debugQuery I could see that it is running following parsed > query string > > *+(-title:legend -title:urban) +releaseYear:[1900 TO 2022]* > > However the same query return results if I do not enclose first two terms > in parentheses as shown below > > *-title:legend AND -title:Urban AND releaseYear:[1900 TO 2022]* > > It's parsed query string is > > *-title:legend -title:urban +releaseYear:[1900 TO 2022]* > > Could you please explain as to why the second query returns results while > the first does not as I could not find anything in the documentation to > explain this behavior? > > Thanks, > Arun > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev
