: None of the variants worked. I started with that syntax for both
: exists() and if(). All gave the same stack trace. --wunder
...
: We're running Solr 3.3 and I have a function query for boosting that
: works with bq but not
...i'm very confused. All of the "boolean" functions (like "if()",
and "exists()") were added in Solr 4.0...
https://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery#Boolean_Functions
As for why it might look like it "works" in the "bq" param -- that is a
"boost query" parsed as a query string, so it doesn't parse with the
function syntax, and you are probably getting a very odd boolean query
matching on docs with "if" and "exists" in the default text field.
-Hoss
