edismax returns very less matches than regular

[amit <am...@gmail.com>]

I have a simple system. I put the title of webpages into the "name" field and
content of the web pages into the "Description" field.
I want to search both fields and give the name a little more boost.
A search on name field or description field returns records cloase to
hundreds.

http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=name:%28coldfusion^2%20cache^1%29&fq=author:[*%20TO%20*]%20AND%20-author:chinmoyp&start=0&rows=10&fl=author,score,%20id

But search on both fields using boost just gives 5 matches.

http://localhost:8983/solr/mindfire/?q=%28%20coldfusion^2%20cache^1%29*&defType=edismax&qf=name^1.5%20description^1.0*&fq=author:[*%20TO%20*]%20AND%20-author:chinmoyp&start=0&rows=10&fl=author,score,%20id

I am wondering what is wrong, because there are valid results returned in
1st query which is ignored by edismax. I am on solr3.6



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Re: edismax returns very less matches than regular

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

Adding &debugQuery=true is your friend. I suspect that you'll find
your first query is actually searching
name:coldfusion OR defaultsearchfield:cache and you _think_ it's
searching for both coldfusion and cache in the name field....

Best
Erick

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, amit <am...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a simple system. I put the title of webpages into the "name" field and
> content of the web pages into the "Description" field.
> I want to search both fields and give the name a little more boost.
> A search on name field or description field returns records cloase to
> hundreds.
>
> http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=name:%28coldfusion^2%20cache^1%29&fq=author:[*%20TO%20*]%20AND%20-author:chinmoyp&start=0&rows=10&fl=author,score,%20id
>
> But search on both fields using boost just gives 5 matches.
>
> http://localhost:8983/solr/mindfire/?q=%28%20coldfusion^2%20cache^1%29*&defType=edismax&qf=name^1.5%20description^1.0*&fq=author:[*%20TO%20*]%20AND%20-author:chinmoyp&start=0&rows=10&fl=author,score,%20id
>
> I am wondering what is wrong, because there are valid results returned in
> 1st query which is ignored by edismax. I am on solr3.6
>
>
>
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