Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage

2014-10-01 Thread shamik
Thanks a lot Jack, it makes total sense. I check the config and default q.op was set to OR, which was influencing the query. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Boost-Query-bq-syntax-usage-tp4161989p4162169.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at N

Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage

2014-09-30 Thread Jack Krupansky
dismax and then specify edismax for bq using the localParam notation. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Jack Krupansky Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:19 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage The "+" signs in the parsed b

Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage

2014-09-30 Thread Jack Krupansky
solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage Thanks a lot Jack, makes sense. Just curios, if we used the following bq entry in solrconfig xml Source2:sfdc^6 Source2:downloads^5 Source2:topics^3 will it always be treated as an AND query ? Some of local results suggests

Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage

2014-09-30 Thread shamik
Thanks a lot Jack, makes sense. Just curios, if we used the following bq entry in solrconfig xml Source2:sfdc^6 Source2:downloads^5 Source2:topics^3 will it always be treated as an AND query ? Some of local results suggests otherwise. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3

Re: Boost Query (bq) syntax/usage

2014-09-30 Thread Jack Krupansky
A boost is basically an "OR" operation - it doesn't select any more or fewer documents. So, three separate bq's are three OR terms. But your first bq is a single query that ANDs three terms, and that AND-ed query is OR-ed with the original query, so it only boosts documents that contain all thre