Your syntax looks a bit funny. Which version of Solr are you using? Pure negative queries are not supported, try q=(*:* -title:janitor) instead.
Also, for debugging what's going on, please add &debugQuery=true and share the parsed query for both cases with us. -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com On 11. aug. 2010, at 22.28, Jean-Sebastien Vachon wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me why the two following queries do not return the same > results? > Is that a bug or a feature? > > http://localhost:8983/jobs/select?fq=title:(NOT janitor)&fq=description:(NOT > janitor)&q=*:* > > http://localhost:8983/jobs/select?q=title:(NOT janitor) AND description:(NOT > janitor) > > > The second query returns no result while the first one returns 6097276 > documents > > Thanks
