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David Smiley updated SOLR-9583:
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    Issue Type: Wish  (was: Bug)

This isn't a bug -- it's asking for trouble.  Solr isn't supposed to be used 
this way.  So I changed this to a "wish"; if some day we actually make this 
work.

> When the same <uniqueKey> exists across multiple collections that are 
> searched with an alias, the document returned in the results list is 
> indeterminate
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>                 Key: SOLR-9583
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9583
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Wish
>      Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) 
>            Reporter: Erick Erickson
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> Not quite sure whether to call this a bug or improvement...
> Currently if I have two collections C1 and C2 and an alias that points to 
> both _and_ I have a document in both collections with the _same_ <unkqueKey>, 
> the returned list  sometimes has the doc from C1 and sometimes from C2.
> If I add shards.info=true I see the document found in each collection, but 
> only one in the document list. Which one changes if I re-submit the identical 
> query.
> This seems incorrect, perhaps a side effect of piggy-backing the collection 
> aliasing on searching multiple shards? (Thanks Shalin for that bit of 
> background).
> I can see both use-cases: 
> 1>  aliasing multiple collections validly assumes that <uniqueKey>s should be 
> unique across them all and only one doc should be returned. Even in this case 
> which doc should be returned should be deterministic.
> 2> these are arbitrary collections without any a-priori relationship and 
> identical <unkqueKey>s do NOT identify the "same" document so both should be 
> returned.
> So I propose we do two things:
> a> provide a param for the CREATEALIAS command that controls whether docs 
> with the same <unkqueKey> from different collections should both be returned. 
> If they both should, there's still the question of in what order.
> b> provide a deterministic way dups from different collections are resolved. 
> What that algorithm is I'm not quite sure. The order the collections were 
> specified in the CREATEALIAS command? Some field in the documents? Other??? 
> What happens if this option is not specified on the CREATEALIAS command?
> Implicit in the above is my assumption that it's perfectly valid to have 
> different aliases in the same cluster behave differently if specified.



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