Multisearching with Solr

[David Pratt]

Hi. I am checking out solr after having some experience with lucene 
using pyLucene. I am looking at the potential of solr to search over a 
large index divided over multiple servers to collect results, sort of 
what the parallel multisearcher does in Lucene on its own. From quick 
scan of archives it appears SOLR-303 may be the answer to this. Can this 
functionality be incorporated into 1.2 in a sandbox environment? Has 
anyone written a recipe that would be helpful in getting a sandbox up 
and running with SOLR-303?

It will most likely be a few months before needing to incorporate this 
type of functionality in production but hoping to begin experimenting as 
soon as possible. On that note, is it anticipated that 1.3 will be out 
in a few months. If so, will it include this functionality? Lastly, what 
sort of load balancing and replication potential is anticipated for the 
multisearching capability? Many thanks.

Regards,
David