Boost but not filter

[Ravi Gidwani <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hello:
          I have a basic question:

I am using dismax, Solr 1.4. Let's say I have query where q=sometext  
and it returns me 50 results.but let's say now I want to rank all  
those (say 10) documents higher where field:abc.
Note I just want rank them higher based on the field value and not  
limit the results to these 10 documents.

1) I have tried using bq (something like q=sometext&bq=field:abc ^  
100 ) but this filters/limits the results giving me only those 10  
documents.

2) using qf does not help as I can't boost fields based on field value  
I.e abc

Appreciate any help, comments.

TIA
~Ravi

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Re: Boost but not filter

[Erik Hatcher <er...@gmail.com>]

I'm not seeing this effect with the example setup:

    http://localhost:8983/solr/select?defType=dismax&qf=name&q=ipod&debugQuery=true&bq=inStock:true

What do you get as the parsedquery when using debugQuery=true?    
What's your full request to Solr?

There is some odd logic in the dismax parser with bq, though - where  
if the bq parses to a BooleanQuery with a 1.0 boost then it could  
filter instead of boost.

	Erik


On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:07 AM, Ravi Gidwani wrote:

> Hello:
>         I have a basic question:
>
> I am using dismax, Solr 1.4. Let's say I have query where q=sometext  
> and it returns me 50 results.but let's say now I want to rank all  
> those (say 10) documents higher where field:abc.
> Note I just want rank them higher based on the field value and not  
> limit the results to these 10 documents.
>
> 1) I have tried using bq (something like q=sometext&bq=field:abc ^  
> 100 ) but this filters/limits the results giving me only those 10  
> documents.
>
> 2) using qf does not help as I can't boost fields based on field  
> value I.e abc
>
> Appreciate any help, comments.
>
> TIA
> ~Ravi
>
> Sent from my iPhone