Answering my own question: The "pf" feature only kicks in with multi term "q" param. In my case I used a field tokenized by KeywordTokenizer, hence pf never kicked in.
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 14. okt. 2010, at 13.29, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent wrote: > Hi, > > Have applied SOLR-1553 to 1.4.2 and it works great. > However, I can't get the pf param to work. Example: > q=foo bar&qf=title^2.0 body^0.5&pf=title^50.0 > > Shouldn't I see the phrase query boost in debugQuery? Currently I see no > trace of pf being used. > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com >