Re: Which is faster/better

2008-11-30 Thread Ganesh
I have to Tag a document based on User request. On deletion, I should do 'marked for delete' and on document state change, i need to update the document. Update internally does delete and add. I am commiting the writer and re-opening the reader, every minute. Consider, In a minute, lets say Us

Boosting fields are searching or indexing time?

2008-11-30 Thread Marc Sturlese
Hey there, I have a simple question about boosting fields, I have a lucene indexer app that indexes data from a db. At indexing time I give different boost to the fields depending on if the field is title or content. Would it be the same to set the boost at searching time instead of at indexing? I