Hi Erik, Thanks for the quick reply. I want to enable leading wildcard query searches in general. The case mentioned in the earlier mail is just one of the many instances I use this feature.
-Kumar -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:e...@ehatchersolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:59 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Customizing Solr to handle Leading Wildcard queries On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Jana, Kumar Raja wrote: > Not being able to perform Leading Wildcard queries is a major > handicap. > I want to be able to perform searches like *.pdf to fetch all pdf > documents from Solr. For this particular case, I recommend indexing the document type as a separate field. Something like type:pdf (or use a MIME type string). Then you can do a very direct and fast query to search or facet by document types. Erik
