Re: Boosting by calculated distance buckets

2015-02-18 Thread sraav
David, I just subscriped to the solr list..lets see if that will allow me to posting this. I will write a Custom ValueSource. I tried the map function that you suggested, it works but it is not so great on performance. I will try referring funtion query as a sort instead of bq..may be it wil

Re: Boosting by calculated distance buckets

2015-02-17 Thread David Smiley
Raav, You may need to actually subscribe to the solr-user list. Nabble seems to not be working to well. p.s. I’m on vacation this week so I can’t be very responsive First of all... it's not clear you actually want to *boost* (since you seem to not care about the relevancy score), it seems you wa

Re: Boosting by calculated distance buckets

2015-02-14 Thread David Smiley
Hello, You can totally boost by calculations that happen on-the-fly on a per-document basis when you search. These are called function queries in Solr. Your your specific example… a solution that doesn’t involve writing a custom so-called ValueSource in Java would likely mean calculating the dist