take a look to <updateRequestProcessorChain name="dedupe"> I think you must use dedup to solve this issue
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dowling <tdowl...@ohiolink.edu> To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Cc: Mikhail Khludnev <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:10 pm Subject: Re: Help with duplicate unique IDs Thanks. In fact, the behavior I want is overwrite=true. I want to be able to reindex documents, with the same id string, and automatically overwrite the previous version. Thomas On 03/02/2012 04:01 PM, Mikhail Khludnev wrote: > Hello Tomas, > > I guess you could just specify overwrite=false > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22add.22 > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Thomas Dowling<tdowl...@ohiolink.edu>wrote: > >> In a Solr index of journal articles, I thought I was safe reindexing >> articles because their unique ID would cause the new record in the index to >> overwrite the old one. (As stated at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/** >> SchemaXml#The_Unique_Key_Field<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml#The_Unique_Key_Field>- >> right?) >>