Nope. You should fetch all the rows in 100 row chunks. Much, much better than getting them all in one request. I do that to load the auto-complete table.
I really cannot think of a good reason to fetch all the rows in one request. That is more like a denial of service attack than like a useful engineering solution. wunder On 5/9/08 11:11 AM, "Marc Bechler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > one possible use case could be to synchronize the index against a given > database. E.g., assume that you have a filesystem that is indexed > periodically. If files are deleted on this filesystem, they will not be > deleted in the index. This way, you can get (e.g.) the complete content > from your index in order to check for consistency. > > Btw: I also played around with the rows parameter in order to get the > overall index; but I got exceptions ("not sufficient heap space"), when > setting up rows above some higher thresholds. > > Regards, > > marc > > > Erik Hatcher schrieb: >> Or make two requests... one with rows=0 to see how many documents match >> without retrieving any, then another with that amount specified. >> >> Erik >> >> >> On May 9, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Francisco Sanmartin wrote: >>> Yeah, I understand the possible problems of changing this value. It's >>> just a very particular case and there won't be a lot of documents to >>> return. I guess I'll have to use a very high int number, I just wanted >>> to know if there was any "proper" configuration for this situation. >>> >>> Thanks for the answer! >>> >>> Pako >>> >>> >>> Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >>>> Will something a la rows=<max int here> work? ;) But are you sure you >>>> want to do that? It could be sloooooow. >>>> >>>> >>>> Otis >>>> -- >>>> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ---- >>>> >>>>> From: Francisco Sanmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 4:18:46 PM >>>>> Subject: Unlimited number of return documents? >>>>> >>>>> What is the value to set to "rows" in solrconfig.xml in order not to >>>>> have any limitation about the number of returned documents? I've >>>>> tried with "-1" and "0" but not luck... >>>>> >>>>> solr 0 name="rows">*10* >>>>> I want solr to return all available documents by default. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Pako >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >