Cool, thanks for the clarification, Ryan.
-----Original Message----- From: Ryan McKinley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:28 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: quick allowDups questions the default solrj implementation should do what you need. > > As for Solrj, you're probably right, but I'm not going to take any > chances for the time being. The server.add method has an optional > Boolean flag named "overwrite" that defaults to true. Without knowing > for sure what it does, I'm not going to mess with it. > direct solr update allows a few extra fields allowDups, overwritePending, overwriteCommited -- the future of overwritePending, overwriteCommited is in doubt (SOLR-60), so i did not want to bake that into the solrj API. internally, allowDups = !overwrite; (the one field you can set) overwritePending = !allowDups; overwriteCommited = !allowDups; ryan