Eric Pugh wrote:
Do you have to "reindex"? Are you meaning an optimize operation? You
can do an "update" by just sending Solr a new record, and letting Solr
deal with the removing and adding of the data.
The problem is that I can't easily create the new record. There is some
data that I no longer have access to, but did at the time I created the
record to begin with.
You can just query Solr, find the records that you want (including all
the website data). Update them, and then send the entire record back.
This is what I'd like to know how to do. I'll experiment with this, but
I thought that I wouldn't be able to get back all the info I need to
recreate the doc.
Or am I missing something? Are these documents so huge that you don't
want to pull back an entire record for some reason?
I would like to get the record from solr because I just can't create the
record the same way as I originally did.
(Besides the time involved in crawling all those websites, some of them
only allow us access for a limited amount of time, so to reindex, we
need to call them up and schedule a time for them to whitelist us.)
Eric
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Paul Rosen<p...@performantsoftware.com> wrote:
I realize there is no way to update particular fields in a solr record. I
know the recommendation is to delete the record from the index and re-add
it, but in my case, it is difficult to completely reindex, so that creates
problems with my work flow.
That is, the info that I use to create a solr doc comes from two places: a
local file that contains most of the info, and a URL in that file that
points to a web page that contains the rest of the info.
To completely reindex, we have to hit every website again, which is
problematic for a number of reasons. (Plus, those websites don't change
much, so it is just wasted effort.) (Once in a while we do reindex, and it
is a huge production to do so.)
But that means that if I want to make a small change to either schema.xml or
the local files that I'm indexing, I can't. I can't even fix minor bugs
until our yearly reindexing.
So, the question is:
Is there any way to get the info that is already in the solr index for a
document, so that I can use that as a starting place? I would just tweak
that record and add it again.
Thanks,
Paul
