is it possible to change the way score from different field combine to give final lucene score

2008-03-24 Thread Nizamul
Suppose I have two field field1 and field2 and let the score for a query from field1 and field2 are score1 and score2 respectively.now when computing the final lucene score I instead of score1,I want to use some function (f(score1)) of that score.

can we do partial optimization?

2007-12-03 Thread Nizamul
Hello, I am very new to Lucene.I am facing one problem. I have one very large index which is constantly getting update(add and delete) at a regular interval.after which I am optimizing the whole index (otherwise searches will be slow) but optimization takes time.So I was thinking to merge