Can "boost" attribute really be specified for a field in the schema? I wasn't aware of that, and I don't see it on http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml .
Maybe you are mixing it with http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22 ? Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ian Smith <ian.sm...@gossinteractive.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 6:40:11 AM > Subject: Index-time field boosting not working? > > I have the following field configured in schema.xml: > > > omitNorms="false" boost="3.0" /> > > Where "text" is the type which came with the Solr distribution. I have > not been able to get this configuration to alter any document scores, > and if I look at the indexes in Luke there is no change in the norms > (compared to an un-boosted equivalent). > > I have confirmed that document boosting works (via SolrJ), but our field > boosting needs to be done in the schema. > > Am I doing something wrong (BTW I have tried using "3.0f" as well, no > difference)? > > Also, I have seen no debug output during startup which would indicate > that fild boosting is being configured - should there be any? > > I have found no usage examples of this in the Solr 1.4 book, except a > vague discouragement - is this a deprecated feature? > > TIA, > > Ian > > Web design and intelligent Content Management. > www.twitter.com/gossinteractive > > Registered Office: c/o Bishop Fleming, Cobourg House, Mayflower Street, > Plymouth, PL1 1LG. Company Registration No: 3553908 > > This email contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be > legally > privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or > transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by > replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient you may not > use, > disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. > > Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free, as > information may be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete or contain viruses. This email and any files attached to it have > been > checked with virus detection software before transmission. You should > nonetheless carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. > GOSS > Interactive Ltd accepts no liability for any loss or damage that may be > caused > by software viruses.
