Regarding that 3rd answer below: Yes, that's what most people do, though nothing prevents the indexing client from sending the same doc to multiple shards. In some scenarios that's exactly what you want to do.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Ludwig <m...@as-guides.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:36:25 AM > Subject: Re: Few Queries regarding indexes in Solr > > Rakhi Khatwani schrieb: > > > 1. Is it possible to query from another index folder (say > > index1) in solr? > > I think you're looking for the multi-core feature. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MultipleIndexes > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin > > > 2. Is it possible to query 2 indexes(folders index1 and index2) > > stored in the same machine using the same port on a single solr > > instance? > > Sounds like multi-core. > > > 3. consider a case: i have indexes in 2 shards, and i merge the > > indexes (present in 2 shards) onto the 3rd shard now i add more > > documents into shard1 and delete some documents from shard 2 and > > update the indexes. is it possible to send the differences only > > into shard 3 and then merge it at shard 3? > > My (very limited) understanding of shards is that you repartition > your documents among shards and send each document to only one > shard. (Not sure this is correct.) > > Michael Ludwig
