WildcardQuery is a subclass of MultiTermQuery, read the javadocs about MTQ,
than you might understand whats going on and what you can do.

Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
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http://www.thetaphi.de
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TorAtle [mailto:toratle...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:49 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Wildcard searches and document boost
> 
> 
> I have indexed a number of geotagged locations and want the results sorted
> by
> relevance.
> 
> For instance, when searching for "wash*" I want "Washington" (the city) to
> appear before "Washington Park", so I have boosted the "Washington"
> document. Unfortunately, when using WildcardQuery, the score is always
> 1.0.
> 
> Luke says my query has been rewritten to "ConstantScore(myField:wash*), so
> that sort of explains what's going on. But why? And short of sorting the
> result, what is the solution to my problem?
> 
> Best regards,
> Tor Atle
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