WildcardQuery error in Solr

Question

I use solr to search for documents and when trying to search for documents using this query \"id:*\", I get this query parser exception telling that it cannot parse

Answer 1

I'm assuming with id:* you're just trying to match all documents, right?

I've never used solr before, but in my Lucene experience, when ingesting data, we've added a hidden field to every document, then when we need to return every record we do a search for the string constant in that field that's the same for every record.

If you can't add a field like that in your situation, you could use a RegexQuery with a regex that would match anything that could be found in the id field.

Edit: actually answering the question. I've never heard of a patch to get that to work, but I would be surprised if it could even be made to work reasonably well. See this question for a reason why unconstrained PrefixQuery's can cause a problem.