Otis Gospodnetic schrieb:
Regarding that 3rd answer below:
Putting it back in context (where it belongs :-) :
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.)
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.
What kind of scenario would that be? Michael Ludwig -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
