There was a similar discussion recently. I think the conclusion was that if
your users have to page through 5 millions of results, you have a bigger
problem on your hands than storing the page marks.
You could store them on the client side.....
Regards,
Alex
On 02/02/2015 4:08 pm, "tedsolr" <tsm...@sciquest.com> wrote:
> I'm surprised I haven't seen a post on this, but maybe the answers are
> obvious. I'm using a cursor to page the results. If I want to enable
> reverse
> paging (go back one page) I have to either:
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> a) Keep a map of all cursor marks the user made paging forward. This map
> could get very long if a user did page to the end of 5M results.
> b) Reverse the sort order on the search. Then I would need to sort the
> results for the page in reverse order to put the them back in the order
> expected by the user.
>
> So (b) seems like the reasonable solution, and it should support the jump
> forward/backward N pages feature if I had to build that in. Is this the
> right way to support backward paging with cursors?
> (using Solr 4.9)
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