Wildcard query terms aren’t analyzed, why is that?

Prior to the current 3x branch (which will be released as 3.6) and the trunk (4.0) Solr code, users have frequently been perplexed by wildcard searching being un-analyzed, often manifesting in case sensitivity. Say you have an analysis chain in your schema.xml file defined as follows and a field named lc_field of this type:

<fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" >
  <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
  <filter class="solr.LowercaseFilterFactory" />
</fieldType>

Now, you index …

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I was recently with a client doing a Best Practices assesment when I came across a common source of confusion related to sorting, faceting and schema design.

As background, Solr provides a schema that describes the Fields and Field Types (FT) that are used by an application.  Field Types describe how Solr should handle the information contained in a Field.  For instance, the integer FT tells Solr to treat the contents of any Field of …

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