I did try the bq parameter. Either I'm not using it correctly, or it's
not making a noticeable difference. I was not able to find any good
docs, either. Can you give me complete instructions in its use? Can I
control the boost factor? Is the boost additive or multiplicative?
For query elevation, don't you have to know in advance the query that a
user will send? There's no way for me to know this - we want to be able
to apply the boost to arbitrary queries.
The source data comes from MySQL, and this is a seven-shard distributed
index with 74075200 documents as of a few minutes ago. Although
ExternalFileField probably wouldn't be impossible, it is rather impractical.
Thanks,
Shawn
On 1/17/2013 10:53 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
Have you tried boost query? bq=provider:fred
wunder
On Jan 17, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote:
Start with "Query Elevation" and see if that helps:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryElevationComponent
Index-time document boost is a possibility.
Maybe an ExternalFileField where every document could have a dynamic boost
value that you add with a boost function.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message----- From: Shawn Heisey
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:11 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Questions about boosting
I've been trying to figure this out on my own, but I've come up empty so
far. I need to boost documents from a certain provider. The idea is
that if any documents in a result match a separate query (like
provider:bigbucks), I need to multiply the score by X. It's important
that the result set of the actual query is not changed, just the order.
