this lowercasing can 'sort of work' (depending on your analysis, and even language, not all case folding is as simple as english).
But the more general problem cannot be a bug, as its mathematically not possible to do with queries like wildcard that allow an infinite language, and non-reversible analysis. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Smiley, David W. <dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
