: it worked (I'm using Solr-3.4.0, not that it matters)!!
:
: I'll try to figure out what went wrong ...with my limited skills.
skimming the thread, i'm going to guess that even though you were adding
omitNorms=true and restarting solr you weren't re-indexing until Jan
suggested starting clean in this message.
omitNorms is a setting that affects documents as they are indexed.
: The solution omitNorms="true" works for now but it's not a long term
: solution in my opinion. I also need to figure out how to make all that work.
To be crystal clear here, you originally said your problem was...
>> I've come accros a problem where newly indexed pages almost always come
>> first even when the term frequency is relatively slow.
omitNorms has *NOTHING* to do with the age of a document in the index. if
documents where scoring higher becuase of the fieldNorm then that means
either:
1) the documents were getting an explicit index time doc/field boost by
the client that added them
2) the document lengths were the differentiator
...omiting norms may have "fixed" a few examples of your "newer docs scre
higher" situation, but if thats really the core of your problem, then
omitting norms is a completley orthoginal change.
-Hoss
