Thanks Lance.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is no upper limit. These are floats. But they can be small too.
> Boost < 1 are 'under normal'.
>
> One radix sorting trick is to boost one field 1000 and another field
> 5. If the first field is a string facet, this gives each group of
> results in one long query. Lucene sorting does radix also, of course,
> but sometimes it is not the best tool.
>
>
>
>
> On 5/8/11, Ravi Gidwani <ravi.gidw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Is there any upper limit to the boost weight/value ? For example in the
> > following query :
> >
> > &qf=exact_title^2000+exact_category^1900+exact_tags^1700
> >
> > are these boost values acceptable and work as expected ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~Ravi Gidwani
> >
>
>
> --
> Lance Norskog
> goks...@gmail.com
>

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