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Hoss Man updated SOLR-2996:
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    Description: 
More then a few users have gotten burned by thinking that "{{\*}}" is the 
appropriate syntax for "match all docs" when what it really does (unless i'm 
mistaken) is create a prefix query on the default search field using a blank 
string as the prefix.

since it seems very unlikely that anyone has a genuine usecase for making a 
prefix query with a blank prefix, we should change the default behavior of the 
LuceneQParser and EDismaxQParsers (and any other Qparsers that respect 
{{\*:\*}} if i'm forgetting them) to treat this situation the same as 
{{\*:\*}}.  we can offer a (local)param to force the old behavior if someone 
really wants it.


  was:
More then a few users have gotten burned by thinking that "*" is the 
appropriate syntax for "match all docs" when what it really does (unless i'm 
mistaken) is create a prefix query on the default search field using a blank 
string as the prefix.

since it seems very unlikely that anyone has a genuine usecase for making a 
prefix query with a blank prefix, we should change the default behavior of the 
LuceneQParser and EDismaxQParsers (and any other Qparsers that respect *:* if 
i'm forgetting them) to treat this situation the same as *:*.  we can offer a 
(local)param to force the old behavior if someone really wants it.



fix jira markup in description
                
> make "q=*" not suck in the lucene and edismax parsers
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-2996
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2996
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Hoss Man
>
> More then a few users have gotten burned by thinking that "{{\*}}" is the 
> appropriate syntax for "match all docs" when what it really does (unless i'm 
> mistaken) is create a prefix query on the default search field using a blank 
> string as the prefix.
> since it seems very unlikely that anyone has a genuine usecase for making a 
> prefix query with a blank prefix, we should change the default behavior of 
> the LuceneQParser and EDismaxQParsers (and any other Qparsers that respect 
> {{\*:\*}} if i'm forgetting them) to treat this situation the same as 
> {{\*:\*}}.  we can offer a (local)param to force the old behavior if someone 
> really wants it.

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