i ran a test. the value for the field is taken to be 0 for the documents which dont have that field.
This will return a correct result 1. if the documents are to be put in the end of the sort, AND 2. all the values are positive. is there some way to change this default value (preferably from outside via a properties file or something similar) On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Umar Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks hoss, > > will surely do that. > > -umar > > > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> : I am using function queries to rank the results, >> : if some/ allthe fields (used in the function ) are missing from the >> document >> : what will be the ranking behavior for such documents? >> >> Off the top of my head, I believe it's zero, but an easy way to check is >> to run a simple linear function query with no offset and a slope of 1 >> (esentially an identity fucntion) against a doc with no value for that >> field and see what you get. >> >> >> -Hoss >> >> >
