On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind said: > This is what I do instead, to rewrite the query to mean the same thing but > not give the lucene query parser trouble: > > fq=( (*:* AND -type:foo) OR restriction_id:1) > > "*:*" means "everything", so (*:* AND -type:foo) means the same thing as > just "-type:foo", but can get around the lucene query parsers troubles. > > So that might work for you.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Unfortunately I've tried that as well and, whilst it works it's also unbelievably slow (~30s query time). Would writing my own Query Parser help here? Simon
