On 23.11.2009 19:33 Chris Hostetter wrote: > ...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)
Coming in a bit late but I would like a variant that is not a No-OP. Think of something like title:searchstring^10 OR catch_all:searchstring Of course I can always add the boosting at query time but it would make life easier if I could define a default boost in the schema so that my query could just be title:searchstring OR catch_all:searchstring but still get the boost for the title field. Thinking this further it would be even better if it was possible to define one (or more) fallback field(s) with associated boost factor in the schema. Then it would be enough to query for title:searchstring and it would be automatically expanded to e.g. title:searchstring^10 OR title_other_language:searchstring^5 OR catchall:searchstring or whatever you define in the schema. -Michael
