[Xapian-discuss] Problems with AND-combined queries

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:54:22PM +0200, Manuel Kägi wrote:
>        $parser = new XapianQueryParser();
>        $parser->add_prefix("type", "T");

I think you want add_boolean_prefix here rather than add_prefix.

>        $parser->set_stemmer($stemmer);
>        $parser->set_stemming_strategy(XapianQueryParser::STEM_SOME);
>        $parser->set_database($this->xapianDb);
>        $queryParsed = $parser->parse_query($pattern, 
> $this->DEFAULT_SEARCH_FLAGS);
> 
> So.. this all works if i search "type:document " OR any simple query 
> (e.g. "backup"), but not the i want to search
> "backup AND type:document". Doing so i always get an empty result set.

For tips in debugging such cases, see:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/NoMatches

Cheers,
    Olly