On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Naomi Dushay <ndus...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Regardless, I thought that defType=dismax&q=*:* is supposed to be
> equivalent to q={!defType=dismax}*:* and also equivalent to q={!dismax}*:*
Not quite - there is a very subtle distinction.
{!dismax} is short for {!type=dismax}, the type of the actual query,
and this may not be overridden.
The defType local param is only the default type for sub-queries (as
opposed to the current query).
It's useful in conjunction with the "query" or nested query qparser:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/NestedQParserPlugin.html
-Yonik
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