[SOLR-3241] Document boost fail if a field copy omit the norms

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Tomas Eduardo Fernandez Lobbe
• Created: 13/Mar/12 21:07
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:41
• Resolved: 14/Mar/12 18:04

Description

After https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3796, it is not possible to set a boost to a field that has the "omitNorms" set to true. This is making Solr's document index-time boost to fail when a field that doesn't omit norms is copied (with copyField) to a field that does omit them and document boost is used. For example:

<field name="author" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" omitNorms="false"/>
<field name="author_display" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>
<copyField source="author" dest="author_display"/>

I'm attaching a possible fix.