If I do that, how do I turn off the boosting for some queries but not others?
This needs to be done at query time, I believe. -Todd Feak -----Original Message----- From: Walter Underwood [mailto:wunderw...@netflix.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:33 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Using query functions against a "type" field Try document boost at index time. --wunder On 12/22/08 9:28 AM, "Feak, Todd" <todd.f...@smss.sony.com> wrote: > I would like to use a query function to boost documents of a certain > "type". I realize that I can use a boost query for this, but in > analyzing the scoring it doesn't seem as predictable as the query > functions. > > > > So, imagine I have a field called "foo". Foo contains a value that > indicates what type of document this is. For now there are only document > types of "BAR" and "BAZ". I would like documents of type BAR to be > boosted much more strongly then documents of type BAZ. As far as I can > all of the query functions seem to work with fields that contain > numbers. The only exception being the ord() functions, but those don't > provide the stability I would like, as I can always introduce a new > document type down the road and risk screwing up my results. > > > > Can this be done with function queries? > > > > As a follow up, how difficult would it be for me to write my own > function (and plug it into Solr) that allowed me to return a 1.0 or 0.0 > if a field had a particular string value in it? A function that would > look something like "fieldEq(foo,BAR)" > > > > -Todd Feak >
