Solr weird search behaviour

Question

Hi, I am having lots of solr document indexed which has field

uri = nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

but when i search with query

uri:nntp\://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

It returns zero results. The search query works with similar other uri (nntp\://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.windowsxp.general) though.

What am i missing here?

Answer 1

If your search URI is similar to /select?uri%3Anntp*&rows=0 you should still be able to get a good idea of how many items in that field begin with nntp without even returning any rows, the numFound attribute of the result tag should tell you.

If this is blank, I would check your logfile. It is entirely likely you're adding documents with commit turned off. I would use the command line scripts to force things to commit and refresh the readers:

sync
bin/commit 
sync
bin/readercycle

Then I would issue that search again and see if you can see your data again.