Re: Boosting results

2008-11-07 Thread Matthew DeLoria
This actually brings up an interesting question, and something I have been curious about. In this case, does it make more sense to do Boosting by Category, or to do sorting? From what I understand, Lucene sorting involves putting the relevant fields into memory, and then executing a sort. Is

Reading from an IndexWriter

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew DeLoria
I had a question about more about Best Practices and reading from an IndexWriter. Currently, we have an index which we call the master index. This index, in itself, represents our data model. Many clients can access this index. However, we have importer and updating clients which essentially add