On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 06:05 -0400, Erik Hatcher wrote: > Even in the example in that page, the client _is_ just querying a > single Solr instance - it is that Solr instance that is then querying > the shards. Is your interest in moving the shards parameter to the > server-side instead? You can do that with the request handler > mapping configuration in solrconfig.xml, and specify the shards as a > default or invariant parameter.
Erik - that is more than magical enough for me. I've done some searching for how/where to configure this, but can't find it. Are you able to give me any pointers? Thank you! Upayavira > On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:38 AM, Upayavira wrote: > > > The http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch page implies that > > you > > must know what shards exist when doing a search across multiple > > shards. > > > > A colleague tells me that there is a feature that makes it possible to > > hide this knowledge. > > > > That is, a something that you query that then forwards your query > > requests on to the backend shards and aggregates the results. > > > > That way, your application doesn't need to know about how you split > > the > > indexes, it thinks it is just querying a single SOLR instance. > > > > Does anything like this exist, or do I have to write it? > > > > Regards, Upayavira > > >
