How can I manipulate MySQL fulltext search relevance to make one field more 'valuable' than another?

Question

Suppose I have two columns, keywords and content. I have a fulltext index across both. I want a row with foo in the keywords to have more relevance than a row with foo in th

Answer 1

Well, that depends on what do you exactly mean with:

I want a row with foo in the keywords to have more relevance than a row with foo in the content.

If you mean that a row with foo in the keywords should come before any row with foo in the content, then I will do two separate queries, one for the keywords and then (possibly lazily, only if it's requested) the other one on the content.