On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > If you are using the DataImportHandler, you will not be able to search new > data until the full-import or delta-import is complete and the update is > committed. When I do a full reindex, it takes about 5 hours, and until it > is finished, I cannot search it. > > I have not tried to issue a manual commit in the middle of an import to see > whether that makes data inserted up to that point searchable, but I would > not expect that to work. [...]
Just as a data point, we have done this, and yes it is possible to do a commit in the middle of an import, and have the documents that have already been indexed be available for search. Regards, Gora