Thanks, Ludovic and Jonathan. Yes, this configuration default is exactly what I was looking for.
Ran On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > I have not worked with shards/distributed, but I think you can probably > specify them as defaults in your requesthandler in your solrconfig.xml > instead. > > Somewhere there is (or was) a wiki page on this I can't find right now. > There's a way to specify (for a particular request handler) a default > parameter value, such as for 'shards', that will be used if none were given > with the request. There's also a way to specify an invariant that will > always be used even if something else is passed in on the request. > > Ah, found it: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SearchHandler#Configuration > > > On 4/11/2011 8:31 AM, Ran Peled wrote: > >> In the Distributed Search page ( >> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch), it is documented that in >> order to perform a distributed search over a sharded index, I should use >> the >> "shards" request parameter, listing the shards to participate in the >> search >> (e.g. ?shards=localhost:8983/solr,localhost:7574/solr). I am planning a >> new pretty large index (1B+ items). Say I have a 100 shards, specifying >> the >> shards on the request URL becomes unrealistic due to length of URL. It is >> also redundant to do that on every request. >> >> Is there a way to specify the list of shards in a configuration file, >> instead of on the query URL? I have seen references to relevant config in >> SolrCloud, but as I understand it planned to be released only in Solr 4.0. >> >> Thanks, >> Ran >> >>
