Thanks Otis. I got a distributed index - using Solr multi-core. Basically, I got 6 indexer instances running on 3 different boxes. Couple of questions,
1) Is it possible to sort on document id for multiple-shards? How is that done? 2) How would boost by most recent doc at index time? Thanks, -vivek On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Otis Gospodnetic<otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Sort by the internal Lucene document ID and pick the highest one. That might > do the job for you. > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: vivek sar <vivex...@gmail.com> >> To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 8:34:16 PM >> Subject: Boosting for most recent documents >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to find a way to get the most recent entry for the >> searched word. For ex., if I have a document with field name "user". >> If I search for user:vivek, I want to get the document that was >> indexed most recently. Two ways I could think of, >> >> 1) Sort by some time stamp field - but with millions of documents this >> becomes a huge memory problem as we have seen OOM with sorting before >> 2) Boost the most recent document - I'm not sure how to do this. >> Basically, we want to have the most recent document score higher than >> any other and then we can retrieve just 10 records and sort in the >> application by time stamp field to get the most recent document >> matching the keyword. >> >> Any suggestion on how can this be done? >> >> Thanks, >> -vivek > >
