On 11/6/07, evol__ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Is the "expansion" method described in the following year old post still > the best available way to do this? > http://www.nabble.com/newbie-Q-regarding-schema-configuration-tf1814271.html#a4956602 > > The way I understand it, indexing these > <field name="foo" boost="1.0">First val</field> > <field name="foo" boost="0.8">Less important value</field> > would just make the boost "0.8" field-wide?
Yes... all boost values for multivalued fields are multiplied together. Nothing we can do about that... only one norm (boost * lengthNorm) is stored per document per unique field. -Yonik
