On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:09 AM, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to implement a custom sort in Solr based on a combination of > relevance (Solr gives me it yet => score) and a custom value I've calculated > previously for each document. I see two options: > > 1. Use a function query (I'm using a DisMaxRequestHandler). > 2. Create a component that set SortSpec with a sort that has a custom > ComparatorSource (similar to QueryElevationComponent). > > The first option has the problem: While the relevance value changes for > every query, my custom value is constant for each doc.
Yes, that can be an issue when adding unrelated scores. Multiplying them might give you better results: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/BoostQParserPlugin.html -Yonik
