Hi Thomas,

Yes, I will most likely go ahead and set up new instances for Solr 9 and
rebuild the index. I'd be surprised if the original schema from 3.2.0 is
100% compatible with Solr 9.

Thanks :-)

Regards,
Stian

tir. 20. sep. 2022 kl. 11:04 skrev Thomas Corthals <tho...@klascement.net>:

> Hi Stian,
>
> You can't upgrade across more than one major version. You'll have to
> reindex against a new Solr install.
>
> The ref guide has more on configuring similarity:
>
> https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/indexing-guide/schema-elements.html#similarity
>
> Wikipedia has an explanation of the BM25 ranking function:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> Op ma 19 sep. 2022 om 08:59 schreef Stian Brattland <st...@octetnest.no>:
>
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Yes, it may be about time to upgrade from 3.2.0. I think I will have to
> > look into that. Thanks for sharing your insight and configuration
> example.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Stian
> >
> >
> >
> > søn. 18. sep. 2022 kl. 16:21 skrev Thomas Corthals <
> tho...@klascement.net
> > >:
> >
> > > Hi Stian,
> > >
> > > We have the same issue with our documents. I fixed that by setting b =
> 0
> > in
> > > our schema for BM25 similarity.
> > >
> > >     <similarity class="solr.BM25SimilarityFactory">
> > >         <float name="b">0</float>
> > >     </similarity>
> > >
> > > I don't know if BM25 can be used with your version of Solr. Personally
> I
> > > think it's worth upgrading for.
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
> > > Op za 17 sep. 2022 om 19:30 schreef Stian Brattland <
> st...@octetnest.no
> > >:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a Solr (3.2.0) instance with omitNorms=true on all fields.
> This
> > > has
> > > > been done in an attempt to not penalize documents which have many
> > terms.
> > > >
> > > > What puzzles me is that, despite omitNorms=true, the fieldNorm is
> still
> > > > calculated and affects the score.
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >     3.7455106 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(track_hierarchynode:pop in
> 258465),
> > > > product of:
> > > >         2.236068 = tf(termFreq(track_hierarchynode:pop)=5)
> > > >         6.700173 = idf(docFreq=6960, maxDocs=2080776)
> > > >         0.25 = fieldNorm(field=track_hierarchynode, doc=258465)
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > How is the fieldNorm value calculated when omitNorms=true?
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Stian Brattland
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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