continue "ideo-logic" error in QueryParser and in BooleanQuery !

["Serge A. Redchuk" <bi...@mail.ru>]

......
  Let we have 4 docs:
  doc1: "Love is life"
  doc2: "Java is pretty nice language"
  doc3: "C++ is powerful, but unsafe"
  doc4: "Onion and love sometimes are not compatoble"

  So, if search for "love OR NOT onion"

Here I was wrong:  (nevertheless it not solve described bug)
  result must be: doc1, doc2, doc3.
must be:
  result must be: doc1, doc2, doc3, doc4.  (ALL)
.....

Certainly I understand that people will not compose such complex
queries to search for ALL,
but lucene still do not finds all.


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Re: continue "ideo-logic" error in QueryParser and in BooleanQuery !

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>]

Actually,

I do not think this is a bug.
You cannot make searches with queries that have only the NOT part.
You cannot ask Lucene to match all documents that do not contain a
certain term.  For instance, issuing a 'NOT pretty' will not return
doc1, doc3, doc4.
You have to use that NOT pretty in combination with something else
(AND).  For instance 'love AND NOT pretty' should return doc1.

I was about to say that you can check what other search engines do when
you give them just the negation, so I tried av.com and google.com. 
AltaVista does return a bunch of matches, but Google doesn't let you
enter such a query.

Otis


--- "Serge A. Redchuk" <bi...@mail.ru> wrote:
> ......
>   Let we have 4 docs:
>   doc1: "Love is life"
>   doc2: "Java is pretty nice language"
>   doc3: "C++ is powerful, but unsafe"
>   doc4: "Onion and love sometimes are not compatoble"
> 
>   So, if search for "love OR NOT onion"
> 
> Here I was wrong:  (nevertheless it not solve described bug)
>   result must be: doc1, doc2, doc3.
> must be:
>   result must be: doc1, doc2, doc3, doc4.  (ALL)
> .....
> 
> Certainly I understand that people will not compose such complex
> queries to search for ALL,
> but lucene still do not finds all.
> 
> 
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