partial word searches

[Alessandro Ferrucci <al...@gmail.com>]

Yo guys,

quick question..I have a pretty simple solr instance running.. the relevant
part of the schema is as such:


    <field name="last-name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="first-name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="school-year" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="player-position" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="school" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="conference" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>


I've got stuff indexed fine.  Let's say I do a query as such:

last-name:Anderson

I get 27 records (the correct result), so far so good...

now I want to provide a looser query:

last-name:And*

Now I get 0 results back.....odd..

so I try wtithout regex:

last-name:And

0 results back...

I looked at the Lucene query syntax and from there it looks like it should
just work.... but partial word matching doesn't seem to be working.

Any clues?

Thanks all

--
alessandro ferrucci

Re: partial word searches

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>]

On 7/8/07, Alessandro Ferrucci <al...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> last-name:And*
>
> Now I get 0 results back.....odd..

Since "text" probably has a lowercase filter, try last-name:and*

Wildcard queries aren't run through the query analyzer because things
like stemming wouldn't work with partial words.

-Yonik