Hi All I am sure that q vs fq question has been answered several times.
But, I still have a question which I would like to know the answers for: if we have a solr query like this q=*&fq=field_1:XYZ&fq=field_2:ABC&sortBy=field_3+asc How does SolrIndexSearcher fire query in 1.4.1 Will it fire query against whole index first because q=* then filter the results against field_1 and field_2 or is it in parallel? and, if we say that get only 20 rows at a time then will solr do following 1) get all the docs (because q is set to *) and sort them by field_3 2) then, filter the results by field_1 and field_2 Or, will it apply sorting after doing the filter? Please let me know how Solr 1.4.1 works. Thanks Saroj