I might have misunderstood, but I think I cant do string literals in function queries, right?
myfield:"something"^3.0 I tried it anyway using solr 1.4, doesnt seem to work. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@buyways.nl> wrote: > function queries match all documents > > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery#Using_FunctionQuery > > > -----Original message----- > From: Justin Lolofie <jta...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wed 21-07-2010 20:24 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; > Subject: boosting particular field values > > I'm using dismax request handler, solr 1.4. > > I would like to boost the weight of certain fields according to their > values... this appears to work: > > bq=category:electronics^5.5 > > However, I think this boosting only affects sorting the results that > have already matched? So if I only get 10 rows back, I might not get > any records back that are category electronics. If I get 100 rows, I > can see that bq is working. However, I only want to get 10 rows. > > How does one affect the kinds of results that are matched to begin > with? bq is the wrong thing to use, right? > > Thanks for any help, > Justin >