Hi Brian, You should be able to sort on field with only sorted values. Regards, Emir -- Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/
> On 2 Feb 2018, at 16:53, Brian Yee <b...@wayfair.com> wrote: > > Hello Erick, > > I did look into updatable docValues, but my understanding is that the field > has to be non-indexed (indexed="false"). I need to be able to sort on these > values. External field fields are sortable. > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/updating-parts-of-documents.html#UpdatingPartsofDocuments-In-PlaceUpdates > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 5:00 PM > To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: Re: External file fields > > Have you considered updateable docValues? > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Brian Yee <b...@wayfair.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I want to use external file field to store frequently changing inventory and >> price data. I got a proof of concept working with a mock text file and this >> will suit my needs. >> >> What is the best way to keep this file updated in a fast way. Ideally I >> would like to read changes from a Kafka queue and write to the file. But it >> seems like I would have to open the whole file, read the whole file, find >> the line I want to change, and write the whole file for every change. Is >> there a better way to do that? That approach seems like it would be >> difficult/slow if the file is several million lines long. >> >> Also, once I come up with a way to update the file quickly, what is the best >> way to distribute the file to all the different solrcloud nodes in the >> correct directory?
