Boost gets folded in with some other factors at index time and affects the scoring of search results. You can't get back the original though.
-Yonik On 1/11/06, codejunky codejunky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I setBoost( ) on a document to 1. It seems to be written to the index > with the new value and the field boost is set within the DocumentWriter.cs > class. But when I call GetBoost( ) it always returns the default boost value > of 1, no matter what value was set for the boost. However it does seem that > the new document boost that was is being written to the specific segment, but > I can't later retrieve that value. Is there a way to get the correct boost > value that was set by the previous caller. > > > thanks > -thomas
