Yeah, like I said, I was mistaken about setting field boost in schema.xml - doesn't mean it's a bad idea though. At any rate, from your penultimate sentence I reckon at least one of us is still confused about field boosting, feel free to reply if you think it's me ;)
Ian. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: 21 November 2009 01:54 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: schema-based Index-time field boosting : 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 Web design and intelligent Content Management. www.twitter.com/gossinteractive Registered Office: c/o Bishop Fleming, Cobourg House, Mayflower Street, Plymouth, PL1 1LG. Company Registration No: 3553908 This email contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free, as information may be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete or contain viruses. This email and any files attached to it have been checked with virus detection software before transmission. You should nonetheless carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. GOSS Interactive Ltd accepts no liability for any loss or damage that may be caused by software viruses.
