: The field boost attribute was put there by me back in the 1.3 days, when : I somehow gained the mistaken impression that it was supposed to work! : Of course, despite a lot of searching I haven't been able to find : anything to back up my position ;)
solr has never supported anything like a "boost" paramter on fields in schema.xml : Of course, by now I am convinced that this might be a really good : feature - I might get the chance to look into it in the near future - : can anyone think of reasons why this might not work in practice? field boosting only makes sense if it's only applied to some of the documents in the index, if every document has an index time boost on fieldX, then that boost is meaningless. are you looking for query time boosting on fields? like what dismax provides with the "qf" param? -Hoss
