This can be useful, but it is limited. At Infoseek, we used this for demoting porn and spam in the index in 1996, but replaced it with more precise approaches.
wunder On 11/22/07 6:49 AM, "Ryan McKinley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Kiegeland wrote: >> >>> Yes, SOLR-139 will eventually do what you need. >>> >>> The most recent patch should not be *too* hard to get running (it may >>> not apply cleanly though) The patch as is needs to be reworked before >>> it will go into trunk. I hope this will happen in the next month or so. >>> >>> As for production? It depends ;) The API will most likely change so >>> if you base your code on the current patch, it will need to change >>> when things finalize. As for stability, it has worked well for me >>> (and I think for Erik) >> >> A useful feature would be "update based on query", so that documents >> matching the query condition will all be modified in the same way on the >> given update fields. >> If this feature also available in future? >> > > interesting, I had not thought of that - but it could be useful. > (Potentially dangerous and resource intensive, but so is "rm") > > Can you add a comment to SOLR-139 with this idea? Once SOLR-139 is more > stable, it would make sense to do this as a new issue. > > ryan >
