The shards parameter currently references physical shards. There's also a concept of a logical shard (i.e. all physical shards with identical index content share the same logical shards... sometimes what I've also called a shard replica). Should we use logical shard for this, or does anyone have any better ideas?
Related: it seems like we would want to enable querying of specific logical shards (say if a user partitioned their shards by time or by geographic region), so the terminology above could affect the parameter we use for this. Suggestions? logicalshards=shard1,shard2? lshards=shard1,shard2? slice=shard1,shard2? It doesn't seem like it would be easy to reuse the "shards" parameter for this since it refers to physical shard addresses. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
