Nope, you're not missing anything, there's no way to alter a document in an index but reindexing the whole document. Solr's architecture would make it difficult (although never say impossible) to do otherwise. But you're right it would be convenient for people other than you.
Reindexing a single document ought not to be slow, although if you have many of them at once it could be, or if you end up needing to very frequently commit to an index it can indeed cause problems. ________________________________________ From: Benson Margulies [bimargul...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:05 PM To: solr-user Subject: Updating fields in an existing document We find ourselves in the following quandry: At initial index time, we store a value in a field, and we use it for facetting. So it, seemingly, has to be there as a field. However, from time to time, something happens that causes us to want to change this value. As far as we know, this requires us to completely re-index the document, which is slow. It struck me that we can't be the only people to go down this road, so I write to inquire if we are missing something.
