I'm not into the code of Solr at all but I know that Solr is based on the lucene core which has no kind of update mechanism. To update a document using lucene you have to delete and reinsert the document. That might be the reason for the solr behaviour as well.
You should consider that lucene is not a database! best regards simon On 9/18/06, Brian Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I wanted to inquire if anybody would find an update flag useful that only replaced the subset of data (ie a certain field) getting passed in, instead of the whole record. Pseudo-code for what I'm describing: <id>125125</id> <update-partial>true</update-partial> ------------------------ + <language>RU</language> ------------------------ - <language>EN</language> Instead of deleting and reinserting an entire document, which is ostensibly what SOLR does each time an update is performed, it's sometimes preferable to simply replace a single field's value like one does in a database. Any thoughts on the feasibility or limitations of this? Brian
