[SOLR-3315] SOLR ignores 'NOT' clause in query

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 3.5
• Component/s: search
• Labels: not query

Environment

Windows, Java 7

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tom Marsh
• Created: 04/Apr/12 18:38
• Updated: 05/Apr/12 02:53
• Resolved: 05/Apr/12 02:53

Description

We have a simple domain where

FirstName_s:"Bob"
returns 40 documents, and

-Department_t:"Ninjas"
returns all of the documents (we don't have a ninja department).

We expected the query

(FirstName_s:"Bob") OR (-Department_t:"Ninjas")
to return all documents, however it only returned the original 40 documents.

We have experimented with a couple of different orderings, tried using 'NOT' instead of '-' all to no avail.

Is this expected behavior? Perhaps more importantly, how do we get the behavior we expect?