> I noticed a scenario where in I am giving the search string > as Country* > without mentioning any field name, but no documents are > fetched but if i > give the query string as country*, then the docs are > getting fetched.
This is a FAQ and nothing to do with default field. http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ#Are_Wildcard.2C_Prefix.2C_and_Fuzzy_queries_case_sensitive.3F
