A core is a Solr-controlled Lucene index. A shard is a core that one part of a distributed search. Shards: SHOULD have the same schema; you will be so sorry if you don't follow this MUST have the same unique id field, MUST be disjoint: no document can be in two different shards
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mark Allan <mark.al...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Oops! Sorry, I thought shard and core were one in the same and the terms > could be used interchangeably - I've got a multicore setup which I'm able to > search across by using the shards parameter. I think you're right, that > *is* the question I was asking. > > Thanks for letting me know it's not supported yet. I guess the easiest > thing for me to do right now is to add another field in each document saying > which core it was inserted into. > > Thanks again > Mark > > On 16 Dec 2010, at 3:46 pm, Chris Hostetter wrote: > >> : Subject: Determining core name from a result? >> >> FYI: some people may be confused because of terminoligy -- i think what >> you are asking is how to know which *shard* a document came from when >> doing a distributed search. >> >> This isn't currently supported, there is an open issue tracking it... >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-705 >> >> -Hoss >> > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
