I absolutely consider this a bug too. Cast your vote: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-219
~ David On May 21, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Sascha Szott wrote: > Hi folks, > > what's the idea behind the fact that no text analysis (e.g. lowercasing) > is performed on wildcarded search terms? > > In my context this behaviour seems to be counter-intuitive (I guess > that's the case in the majority of applications) and my application > needs to lowercase any input term before sending the HTTP request to my > Solr server. > > Would it be easy to disable this behaviour in Solr (1.5)? I would like > to see a config parameter (per field type) that allows to disable this > "odd" behaviour if needed. To ensure backward compatibility the "odd" > behaviour should be the default anymore. > > Am I missing any drawbacks? > > Best, > Sascha >
