Re: custom hashing across cloud & shards

2013-08-20 Thread kmccork
But this discussion says that if you don't specify numshards, you can still have shards and you can have custom hashing http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-4-1-Custom-Hashing-DIH-td4036316.html, and I'm pretty sure I've read that elsewhere as well. Does anyone have more information on that? Th

Re: custom hashing across cloud & shards

2013-08-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Right, you can't just tell Solr to create a single shard (i.e. by not specifying numshards) then expect to be able to do anything except index to a single shard. All the nodes will be replicas of the single shard. From there it really doesn't matter what you do, the documents will be routed to all