I'm trying to figure out how to set per-field boosts in Solr at index time. For example, if I want the title to be boosted by a factor of 8, I could do that in a query, or I could add the title text with a boost of 8 to the default text field along with the body text (with a boost of 1).
For other engines I've worked with, this gives a lot more performance at the cost of some flexibility -- you need to reindex to change the weightings. I don't see an obvious way to do this in a Solr schema, though it might make sense to add a boost attribute to copyField. Any ideas? Did I miss something? wunder -- Walter Underwood Search Guru, Netflix
