On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Nagelberg, Kallin
<knagelb...@globeandmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Yonik, I was just looking at that actually.
> Trying something like recip(ms(NOW,datetime),3.16e-11,1,1)^10  now.

I'd also recommend looking into a multiplicative boost too - IMO they
normally make more sense.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents

-Yonik
http://www.lucidimagination.com




> My 'inspiration' for the ord method was actually the Solr 1.4 Enterprise 
> Search server book. Page 126 has a section 'using reciprocals and rord with 
> dates'. You should let those guys know what's up!
>
> Thanks,
> Kallin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ysee...@gmail.com [mailto:ysee...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yonik Seeley
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:23 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: ord on TrieDateField always returning max
>
> Besides using up a lot more memory, ord() isn't even going to work for
> a field with multiple tokens indexed per value (like tdate).
> I'd recommend using a function on the date value itself.
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery#ms
>
> -Yonik
> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Nagelberg, Kallin
> <knagelb...@globeandmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been trying to add a date based boost to my queries. I have a field 
>> like:
>>
>> <fieldType name="tdate" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" 
>> precisionStep="6" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
>> <field name="datetime" type="tdate" indexed="true" stored="true" 
>> required="true" />
>>
>> When I look at the datetime field in the solr schema browser I can see that 
>> there are 9051 distinct dates.
>>
>> When I try to add the parameter to my query like: bf=ord(datetime) (on a 
>> dismax query) I always get 9051 as the result of the function. I see this in 
>> the debug data:
>>
>>
>> 1698.6041 = (MATCH) FunctionQuery(top(ord(datetime))), product of:
>>
>>    9051.0 = 9051
>>
>>    1.0 = boost
>>
>>    0.18767032 = queryNorm
>>
>>
>>
>> It is exactly the same for every result, even though each result has a 
>> different value for datetime.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this could be happening? I have 
>> done extensive googling with no luck.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kallin Nagelberg.
>>
>>
>

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