: 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 ;)
Yeah ... i think it's you. like i said... : 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. ...if there was a way to oost fields at index time that was configured in the schema.xml, then every doc would get that boost on it's instances of those fields but the only purpose of index time boosting is to indicate that one document is more significant then another doc -- if every doc gets the same boost, it becomes a No-OP. (think about the math -- field boosts become multipliers in the fieldNorm -- if every doc gets the same multiplier, then there is no net effect) -Hoss
