Re: variaton on boosting recent documents gives exception

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Lackhoff
Am 13.02.2015 um 11:18 schrieb Gonzalo Rodriguez: > You can always change the type of your sortyear field to an int, or create an > int version of it and use copyField to populate it. But that would require me to reindex. Would be nice to have some type conversion available within a function que

RE: variaton on boosting recent documents gives exception

2015-02-13 Thread Gonzalo Rodriguez
the explain field for the numeric value given to NOW/YEAR vs NOW/HOUR, etc. Gonzalo -Original Message- From: Michael Lackhoff [mailto:mich...@lackhoff.de] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 8:57 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: variaton on boosting recent documents gives exce

variaton on boosting recent documents gives exception

2015-02-12 Thread Michael Lackhoff
Since my field to measure recency is not a date field but a string field (with only year-numbers in it), I tried a variation on the suggested boost function for recent documents: recip(sub(2015,min(sortyear,2015)),1,10,10) But this gives an exception when used in a boost or bf parameter. I guess