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

custom hashing across cloud & shards

2013-08-19 Thread Katie McCorkell
Hey All, If you don't specify numShards at the start, then you can do custom hashing, because Solr will just write the document to whatever shard you send it to. However, when I don't specify numshards, I'm having trouble creating more than one shard. It makes one shard and the others I add are s