On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Jack L wrote:
Thanks Chris and Eric for the replies. Very helpful.
no, each instance manages a single schema and a single data index
-- but
thta schema can allow for various differnt types of documents that
don't
need to have anything in common.
Does this mean that as long as I have the schema for all doc
types (which essentially means a larger schema file) set up,
then I can just throw any doc types to it, provided
that there is no conflict among the field names?
Wouldn't even matter if there were field name "conflicts". A field
by any other name is just a field. All document types could have a
"title" field, for example.
And
the fields are flat among different doc types?
I don't understand what you mean by flat here. By definition, a
document in Solr/Lucene is "flat" in that it has fields, but no
hierarchy beyond that.
Is there a way to specify the doc types other than having
it as one of the fields so that I can query against to get
a specific type?
No, there isn't another way. Solr doesn't impose any semantics on
the _types of documents_ you index... it's up to the client to do
that. But adding a simple "type" field to every document facilitates
some amazing stuff :)
Erik
