Re: Single field in "qf" vs multiple

2019-07-31 Thread Erick Erickson
The short answer is “yes, ranking will be different”. This is inevitable since the stats are different in your X field, there are more terms, the frequency of any given term is different, etc. I’d argue, though, that using qf with a list of fields can be tweaked to give you better results. For ins

Single field in "qf" vs multiple

2019-07-31 Thread Steven White
Hi everyone, I'm indexing my data into multiple Solr fields, such as A, B, C and I'm also copying all the data of those fields into a master field such as X. By default, my "qf" is set to X so anytime a user is searching they are searching across the data that also exist in fields A, B and C. In