No, the reverse is true. Sorting is very very fast in Lucene. The
first sort operation spends a lot of time making a data structure and
then following sort calls use it.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Anil Cherian
wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I just now tried a sorting on the results and I got the re
Hi David,
I just now tried a sorting on the results and I got the records with latest
approval_dt first.
My question now is will index-time boosting method increase the response. ie
will I be able to acheive the same thing i achieved
using sorting much faster if i use index-time boosting.
If you
Hi David,
Thank you for the mail.
It seems you are right.sorting might solve the issue as it is not giving
any special weightage to any record other than its approval_dt is the latest
one.. I think i am convinced for now.
I am eagerly waiting for your book around thanks giving so taht i can
Anil, without delving into why your boosting isn't working as you expect, why
don't you simply sort? Based on a message you sent to me directly (excerpted
bellow), it seems you want sorting, not boosting. You could subsequently sort
by score after approval_dt.
~ David Smiley
Author: http://ww
he approval_dt the above was
giving me proper sorted results. Could anyone suggest whether I am doing
something wrong.
thanks and rgds,
Anil.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anil Cherian
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Subject: index-time boost ... query
To: solr-user@l
Hi,
I am working on index-time boosting.
I have a field named approval_dt. I have created that in my SOLR xml
to be uploaded, by sorting my query in ascending order of approval_dt and
then increasing the boost for this field by 0.1 as i encounter new records
from database. In my schema.xml that f
