'conditional' seems to be stemmed into the word 'condit' in the index.
So your results are normal.
As you said, mixing wildcards searching and stemmed fields is not
recommanded.
Ludovic.
2011/4/1 Melanie Drake [via Lucene] <
ml-node+2763787-65059921-383...@n3.nabble.com>
> I noticed an inconsistency in results when performing wildcard searches.
> When searching on variations of "conditional" the following results
> occurred:
>
> conditional - hits
> conditional* - hits
> conditi* - hits
> condit* - hits
> con*al - no hits
> c?nditional - no hits
> c*ld - hits (on a different word: "child")
>
> I don't see an obvious pattern to when the wildcard searches work.
>
> In a response to another post, I read that stemming will cause wildcard
> searches to behave strangely. I believe we may be using stemming, although
> the only configuration I see is the list of words protected against stemming
> defined in protwords.txt.
>
> Also, I'm not sure if it's helpful, but I see a vague Solr error in my
> server log (jboss) any time I perform a search (whether successful or not):
> ERROR [STDERR] <timestamp> org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute
> INFO: [core0] webapp=null path=/select
> params={q=condi*al&fq=url%3A%28%22%2F<long list of application-specific IDs
> used for filtering>&fl=score&hl=true&hl.fragsize=50&hl.snippets=3} hits=0
> status=0 QTime=0
>
> The developer who implemented our search solution is no longer with our
> company, so I'm just looking for any information useful to investigate this
> issue. I apologize if I ommitted any necessary information. Thanks!
>
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