I was not referring to Lucene's doc ids but the doc numbers (unique key) Satish
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote: > > : We have a need to query and fetch millions of document ids from a Solr > 3.3 > : index and convert the same to a BitSet. To speed things up, we want to > : convert these document ids into OpenBitSet on the server side, put them > into > : the response object and read the same on the client side. > > This smells like an XY Problem ... what do you intend to do with this > BitSet on the client side? the lucene doc ids are meaningless outside of > hte server, and for any given doc, the id could change from one request to > the next -- so how would having this data on the clinet be of any use to > you? > > https://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem > XY Problem > > Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are dealing > with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking about "Y" > without giving more details about the "X" so that we can understand the > full issue. Perhaps the best solution doesn't involve "Y" at all? > See Also: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341 > > > -Hoss >
