[LUCENE-8143] Remove SpanBoostQuery

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 31/Jan/18 14:01
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:24
• Resolved: 07/Jun/21 14:56

Description

I initially added it so that span queries could still be boosted, but this was actually a mistake: boosts are ignored on inner span queries, only the boost of the top-level span query, the one that performs scoring, is not ignored.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #155
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1213