Thanks Lance. I have decided to just put all of my processing on a bigger server along with solr. It's too bad, but I can manage.
-Max On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > No. Document creation is all-or-nothing, fields are not updateable. > > I think you have to filter all of your field changes through a "join" > server. That is, > all field updates could go to a database and the master would read > document updates > from that database. Or, you could have one updater feed updates to the > other, The > sends all updates to the master. > > Lance > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Max Lynch <ihas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a master solr server and two slaves. On each of the slaves I have > > programs running that read the slave index, do some processing on each > > document, add a few new fields, and commit the changes back to the > master. > > > > The problem I'm running into right now is one slave will update one > document > > and the other slave will eventually update the same document, but the > > changes will overwrite each other. For example, one slave will add a > field > > and commit the document, but the other slave won't have that field yet so > it > > won't duplicate the document when it updates the doc with its own new > > field. This causes the document to miss one set of fields from one of > the > > slaves. > > > > Can I update a document without having to recreate it? Is there a way to > > update the slave and then have the slave commit the changes to the master > > (adding new fields in the process?) > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com >