On 11/5/07, Yu-Hui Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, does the default operator ( "AND" or "OR") specify the > relationship between a field/value component or between the tokens of the > same field/value componenet?
between any clauses in a boolean query. > e.g. for a query like this: > > field1:abc field2:xyz > > does the operator connect field1:abc and field2:xyz , or it connects the > tokens from "abc" and "xyz" for their respective field? These are two different query clauses (the fieldnames don't matter). If the default operator is "OR", then it will be interpreted as field1:abc OR field2:xyz (both optional) if the default operator is set to "AND" then it will be field1:abc AND field2:xyz (both required) -Yonik
