This sounds perhaps as a non-ES use case, but I would like to have a single document which has a certain flag boost to the top of the results. I have ~10% of the documents with a flag. All documents (disregarding the flag) are sorted on _timestamp. All fields have a _boost by default of 1.0. Now…

Boost only first document matching criteria

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Boost only first document matching criteria