I am using solr4.1 and qt=dismax. I have a similar set with solr1.4 as well.
When I query solr 4.1 with a pf field, the results returned do not have the documents with matching phrases at the top. With my previous installation of solr 1.4, I was getting correct results i.e. documents that have phrases did rank higher than the ones that do not have the phrases.
In solrconfig.xml i have this configuration:
<requestHandler name="dismax" class="solr.SearchHandler" >
<lst name="defaults">
<str name="defType">dismax</str>
<str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
<float name="tie">1.0</float>
</lst>
</requestHandler>
My Query looks like this:
qt=dismax&q=product%20manager&qf=summ_svc_descr+skills+past_proj_tag+past_proj_name+past_proj_descr+login_name+business_name+primary_state+primary_country+primary_city+tagline+dtl_svc_descr+keywords+about_us+parent_cat_name+experience+credentials+past_cat_name+groups+company_login_name+company_business_name&fl=dtl_svc_descr+uniq_id,login_name,login_userid,parent_cat_name,parent_cat_id,net_score,business_name,business_name_sort,primary_state,primary_country,primary_city,primary_zip,reviews_positive_12mos,reviews_12mos,feedback_avg_12mos,earnings_12mos,reviews_positive_6mos,reviews_6mos,feedback_avg_6mos,earnings_6mos,earnings_overall,tagline,summ_svc_descr,hourly_rate,is_individual,user_id,score,tier_seller_id,file_upload_id,file_upload_name,new_provider,is_team,team_cnt,skill_ids,skills,portfolio_yn,jobs_accepted_12mos,is_agent,company_userid,company_login_name,company_business_name,available_y**&pf=summ_svc_descr^1.2+skills^1.8+past_proj_tag+past_proj_name+past_proj_descr+experience+credentials+tagline^1.8+dtl_svc_descr^1.2+keywords+about_us^1.2**&rows=25&start=0&wt=json
when i checked the debug output, i see that the parsedquery does evaluate for phrases too:
parsedquery_toString: "+(((skills:product | about_us:product |
keywords:product | past_proj_name:product | past_proj_descr:product |
past_cat_name:product | summ_svc_descr:product | past_proj_tag:product
| company_login_name:product | parent_cat_name:product |
business_name:product | login_name:product |
company_business_name:product | credentials:product |
experience:product | dtl_svc_descr:product | primary_state:product |
primary_country:product | primary_city:product | groups:product |
tagline:product)~1.0 (skills:manag | about_us:manag | keywords:manag |
past_proj_name:manag | past_proj_descr:manag | past_cat_name:manag |
summ_svc_descr:manag | past_proj_tag:manag | company_login_name:manag
| parent_cat_name:manag | business_name:manag | login_name:manag |
company_business_name:manag | credentials:manag | experience:manag |
dtl_svc_descr:manag | primary_state:manager | primary_country:manager
| primary_city:manager | groups:manag | tagline:manag)~1.0)~2)
(skills:"product manag"~1^1.8 | about_us:"product manag"~1^1.2 |
keywords:"product manag"~1 | past_proj_name:"product manag"~1 |
past_proj_descr:"product manag"~1 | summ_svc_descr:"product
manag"~1^1.2 | past_proj_tag:"product manag"~1 | experience:"product
manag"~1 | credentials:"product manag"~1 | dtl_svc_descr:"product
manag"~1^1.2 | tagline:"product manag"~1^1.8)~1.0"