You can raise the limit to a point. On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Daniel Bruegge wrote:
> Hi, > > I am just wondering how I can 'grow' a distributed Solr setup to an index > size of a couple of terabytes, when one of the distributed Solr limitations > is max. 4000 characters in URI limitation. See: > > *The number of shards is limited by number of characters allowed for GET >> method's URI; most Web servers generally support at least 4000 characters, >> but many servers limit URI length to reduce their vulnerability to Denial >> of Service (DoS) attacks. >> * > > > >> *(via >> http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/Distributed+Search+with+Index+Sharding >> )* >> > > Is the only way then to make multiple distributed solr clusters and query > them independently and merge them in application code? > > Thanks. Daniel - Mark Miller lucidimagination.com
