A followup. The wiki has a whole discussion of the 'update' XML message. But solrj has nothing like it. Does that really exist? Is there a reason to use it? If I just 'add' the document a second time, it will replace?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > 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. >
