Unfortunately Solr's join impl hasn't been backported to 3.x, as far as I know.
You might want to look at ElasticSearch; it has a join implementation already.... or use Solr 4.0. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Cameron Hurst <wakemaste...@z33k.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I was looking into finding a way to do filtering of documents based on > fields of other documents in the index. In particular I have a document that > will update very frequently and hundreds that will very rarely change, but > the rarely changing documents have a field that will change often that is > denormalized from the frequently changing document. The brute force method I > have is to reindex all the documents every time that field changes, but this > at times is a huge load on my server at a critical time that I am trying to > avoid. > > To avoid this hit I was trying to implement patch SOLR-2272. This opens up a > join feature to map fields of 1 document onto another (or so my > understanding is). This would allow me to only update that 1 document and > have the change applied to all others that rely on it. There is a number of > spots that this patch fails to apply and I was wondering if anyone has tried > to use join in 3.3 or any other released version of SOLR or if I the only > way to do it is use 4.0. > > Also while I found this patch, I am also open to any other ideas that people > have on how to accomplish what I need, this just seemed like the most direct > method. > > Thanks for the help, > > Cameron >
