Nobody? SOLR-139 seems to be the most popular issue but I don’t think this will be resolved in near future (this year). Right?
So I will try SOLR-2272 as a workaround, split up my documents in "static" and " frequently updated" and join them at query time. What is the exact join query to do a query like "category:bugfixes AND body:answer" matching "category:bugfixes" in doc1 and matching "body:answer" in doc3 with just returning "doc 1"?? I adopted the fieldnames of doc 3: type: out out_ticketid: 1001 out_body: this is my answer out_category: other q={!join+from=out_ticketid+to=ticketid}(category:bugfixes+OR+out_category:bugfixes)+AND+(body:answer+OR+out_body:answer) Writing this, I doubt this syntax is even possible!? Additionally I'm not sure if trunk with SOLR-2272 is "production ready". The only way to do what I want in a released 3.x version is to do several searches and joining the results manually. e.g. q=category:bugfixes -> doc1 -> ticketid: 1001 q=body:answers -> doc3 -> ticket:1001 -> result ticketid:1001 This I way I would lose benefits like faceted search etc. :-\ Any suggestions? Regards, Kai Gülzau -----Original Message----- From: Kai Gülzau [mailto:kguel...@novomind.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:52 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: document update / nested documents / document join Hi *, i am a bit confused about what is the best way to achieve my requirements. We have a mail ticket system. A ticket is created when a mail is received by the system: doc 1: uid: 1001_in ticketid: 1001 type: in body: I have a problem category: bugfixes date: 201110131955 This incoming document is static. While the ticket is in progress there is another document representing the current/last state of the ticket. Some fields of this document are updated frequently: doc 2: uid: 1001_out ticketid: 1001 type: out body: category: bugfixes date: 201110132015 a bit later (doc 2 is deleted/updated): doc 3: uid: 1001_out ticketid: 1001 type: out body: this is my answer category: other date: 201110140915 I would like to do a boolean search spanning multiple documents like "category:bugfixes AND body:answer". I think it's the same what was proposed by: http://www.slideshare.net/MarkHarwood/proposal-for-nested-document-support-in-lucene So I dig into the deeps of Lucene and Solr tickets and now i am stuck choosing the "right" way: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2454 Nested Document query support https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3171 BlockJoinQuery/Collector https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1879 Parallel incremental indexing https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-139 Support updateable/modifiable documents https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2272 Join If it is easily possible to update one field in a document i would just merge the two logical documents into one representing the whole ticket. But i can't see this is already possible. SOLR-2272 seems to be the best solution by now but feels like workaround. " I can't update a document field so i split it up in static and dynamic content and join both at query time." SOLR-2272 is committed to trunk/solr 4. Are there any planned release dates for solr 4 or a possible backport for SOLR-2272 in 3.x? I would appreciate any suggestions. Regards, Kai Gülzau