Yeah, the situation is kind of a pain right now. In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2438, it was enabled by default and there is no way to disable without patching SolrQueryParser. There's also the edismax parser which doesn't have a setting for this, which I've made a jira for at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3031.
I'm surprised other people haven't requested this, as any instance of serious size can be brought to its knees by a wildcard query. -Michael -----Original Message----- From: johnmu...@aol.com [mailto:johnmu...@aol.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:58 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Is leading wildcard search turned on by default in Solr 3.6.1? At one point, in some version of Solr, it was OFF by default, and you had to enable it via a setting (either in solrconfig.xml or schema.xml, I don't remember). It looks like this is no longer the case. Even worse, and if this is true, disabling it no longer seems to be possible to disable it via a Solr setting!! -- MJ
