Boost value is lost

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Gaunt
Hi all, I was hoping someone could shed some light on this? When I set a boost for a particular field during indexing, for example field.setBoost(1.5f); document.add(field); Then do a indexwriter.optimize(); But when I do a search and get the document back, the boost value for that field has

Re: Boost value is lost

2005-09-21 Thread Yonik Seeley
You don't get the boost back directly... it's folded into the norm for the field and does affect the score when you search against the index. -Yonik On 9/21/05, Steve Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was hoping someone could shed some light on this? When I set a boost for a