If my current shard is holding 3 million documents will the new subshard after splitting also be able to hold 3 million documents? If that is the case After shard splitting the sub shards should hold 6 million documents if a shard is split in to two. Am I right?
> On 01-Aug-2015, at 5:43 pm, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015, at 11:29 PM, naga sharathrayapati wrote: >> I am using solrj to index documents >> >> i agree with you regarding the index update but i should not see any >> deleted documents as it is a fresh index. Can we actually identify what >> are >> those deleted documents? > > If you post doc 1234, then you post doc 1234 a second time, you will see > a deletion in your index. If you don't want deletions to show in your > index, be sure NEVER to update a document, only add new ones with > absolutely distinct document IDs. > > You cannot see (via Solr) which docs are deleted. You could, I suppose, > introspect the Lucene index, but that would most definitely be an expert > task. > >> if there is no option of adding shards to existing collection i do not >> like >> the idea of re indexing the whole data (worth hours) and we have gone >> with >> good number of shards but there is a rapid increase of size in data over >> the past few days, do you think is it worth logging a ticket? > > You can split a shard. See the collections API: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#CollectionsAPI-api3 > > What would you want to log a ticket for? I'm not sure that there's > anything that would require that. > > Upayavira
