That's not the meaning of phrase query at all. Searching for a phrase implies proximity. That is, searching for name:"Tom Jones" requires that these two terms appear next to each other, whereas name:Tom AND name:Jones merely requires that the two terms appear anywhere in the field, no matter how many other terms are between them. I.e. indexing "tom sawyer huck finn and steve jones" in a field would match name:tom AND name:jones but would not match name:"tom jones"
You can control how close phrase terms must be by using the tilde operator, i.e. name:"tom jones"~3. Here's a start... http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Grouping HTH Erick On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Thomas Nguyen <tsx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > Can someone explain to me how fielded queries work with phrases? My > first thought is that the phrase is broken down into terms and those > terms are then fielded and separated with the AND operator. An > example would be the following: > > name:"Tom Jones" --> name:"Tom" AND name:"Jones" > > I found out that isn't correct as the original query didn't returned > any results while the second query did. So then I tried changing the > AND to OR in the second query to see if it's equivalent to the > original query. The OR query did return results so it can't be > equivalent. Any insight would be helpful. > > - Thanks > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
