If you enable LazyLoading and do not request them in your 'fl' list, they should be mostly just size on disk AFAIK.
Regards, Alex. ---- Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 17 December 2015 at 08:09, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: > The expense is in gathering the pieces to do the indexing. There isn't > much that I can do in that regard unfortunately. I need to investigate > storing the fields, if they aren't returned is the expense just size on > disk or is there a memory cost as well? > On Dec 16, 2015 7:43 PM, "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ExternalFileField might be useful in some situations. >> >> But also, is it possible that your Solr schema configuration is not >> best suited for your domain? Is it - for example - possible that the >> additional data should be in child records? >> >> Pure guesswork here, not enough information. But, as described, Solr >> will not be able to fulfill your needs easily. Something will need to >> change. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> >> ---- >> Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: >> http://www.solr-start.com/ >> >> >> On 16 December 2015 at 22:09, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have a use case where we only need to append some fields to a document. >> > To retrieve the full representation is very expensive but I can easily >> get >> > the deltas. Is it possible to just add fields to an existing Solr >> > document? I experimented with using overwrite=false, but that resulted >> in >> > two documents with the same uniqueKey in the index (which makes sense). >> Is >> > there a way to accomplish what I'm looking to do in Solr? My fields >> aren't >> > all stored and think it will be too expensive for me to make that change. >> > Any thoughts would be really appreciated. >>