Dear Solr experts, Could you recommend some strategies or perhaps tell me if I approach my problem from a wrong side? I was hoping to use MultiSearcher to search across multiple indexes in Solr, but there is no such a thing and MultiSearcher was removed according to this post: http://osdir.com/ml/solr-user.lucene.apache.org/2011-01/msg00250.html
I though I had two use cases: 1. maintenance - I wanted to build two separate indexes, one for fulltext and one for metadata (the docs have the unique ids) - indexing them separately would make things much simpler 2. ability to switch indexes at search time (ie. for testing purposes - one fulltext index could be built by Solr standard mechanism, the other by a rather different process - independent instance of lucene) I think the recommended approach is to use the Distributed search - I found a nice solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139030/search-multiple-solr-cores-and-return-one-result-set - however it seems to me, that data are sent over HTTP (5M from one core, and 5M from the other core being merged by the 3rd solr core?) and I would like to do it only for local indexes and without the network overhead. Could you please shed some light if there already exist an optimal solution to my use cases? And if not, whether I could just try to build a new SolrQuerySearcher that is extending lucene MultiSearcher instead of IndexSearch - or you think there are some deeply rooted problems there and the MultiSearch-er cannot work inside Solr? Thank you, Roman
