Re: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-12-03 Thread Walter Underwood
27;t understand why! > > May as well let this drop since we don't seem to be talking about the > same thing . . . but thanks anyway, > > Ian. > -Original Message- > From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] > Sent: 30 November 2009 23:05 > T

Re: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-12-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
mber 2009 23:05 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting : I am talking about field boosting rather than document boosting, ie. I : would like some fields (say eg. title) to be "louder" than others, : across ALL documents. I believe you are a

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
l let this drop since we don't seem to be talking about the same thing . . . but thanks anyway, Ian. -Original Message- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: 30 November 2009 23:05 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: schema-based Index-time field boosti

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I am talking about field boosting rather than document boosting, ie. I : would like some fields (say eg. title) to be "louder" than others, : across ALL documents. I believe you are at least partially talking : about document boosting, which clearly applies on a per-document basis. index time

Re: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Coming in a bit late but I would like a variant that is not a No-OP. : Think of something like title:searchstring^10 OR catch_all:searchstring : Of course I can always add the boosting at query time but it would make : life easier if I could define a default boost in the schema so that my : quer

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-26 Thread Ian Smith
a good idea BTW. Regards, Ian. -Original Message- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: 23 November 2009 18:34 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting : Yeah, like I said, I was mistaken about setting field boost in : schem

Re: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Lackhoff
On 23.11.2009 19:33 Chris Hostetter wrote: > ...if there was a way to oost fields at index time that was configured in > the schema.xml, then every doc would get that boost on it's instances of > those fields but the only purpose of index time boosting is to indicate > that one document is more

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Yeah, like I said, I was mistaken about setting field boost in : schema.xml - doesn't mean it's a bad idea though. At any rate, from : your penultimate sentence I reckon at least one of us is still confused : about field boosting, feel free to reply if you think it's me ;) Yeah ... i think it'

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
riginal Message- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: 21 November 2009 01:54 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting : The field boost attribute was put there by me back in the 1.3 days, when : I somehow gained the mistaken

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: The field boost attribute was put there by me back in the 1.3 days, when : I somehow gained the mistaken impression that it was supposed to work! : Of course, despite a lot of searching I haven't been able to find : anything to back up my position ;) solr has never supported anything like a "bo

RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting

2009-11-20 Thread Ian Smith
Hi David, thanks for replying, The field boost attribute was put there by me back in the 1.3 days, when I somehow gained the mistaken impression that it was supposed to work! Of course, despite a lot of searching I haven't been able to find anything to back up my position ;) Unfortunately our cod