Re: complex OR query not working

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: I want to execute the following query:
: (spacegroupID:g*) OR (!userID:g*).

First: "!" is not a negation operator in the lucene/solr query parser....

: In above syntax  (!userID:g*) gives results correctly.

...i don't think it's doing what you think it's doing.

second: boolean queries can't be purely negative.  they need to select 
something.  the second clause of your main query is a boolean query with a 
single negative clause.

try this instead...

 spacegroupID:g* (*:* -userID:g*)

...that will match 
    any doc with a spacegroupId starting with the g character 
OR: any doc, except those with userID starting with the g character



-Hoss