In Solr&Lucene, a "shard" is one part of an "index". There cannot be "multiple indices in one shard".
All of the shards in an index share the same schema, and no document is in two or more shards. "distributed search" as implemented by solr searches several shards in one index. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <youngestachie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Jeevanandam Madanagopal > <je...@myjeeva.com>wrote: > >> Please have a look >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch >> >> -Jeevanandam >> >> On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy wrote: >> >> > Dear all, >> > >> > >> > I came across this while browsing through lucy >> > >> > http://lucy.apache.org/docs/perl/Lucy/Search/PolySearcher.html >> > >> > Does solr have an equivalent of this? My usecase is exactly the same >> > (reading through multiple indices in a single shard and perform a >> > distribution across shards). >> > >> > If not can someone give me a hint? I tried swapping readers for a single >> > searcher, but didn't help. >> > >> > -- >> > With Thanks and Regards, >> > Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, >> > Project Trainee, >> > Zoho Corporation. >> > +91 9626975420 >> >> > Dear Jeevanandam, > > Thanks for the response, but come on, I am aware of it. Try > reading my mail again. I will have to read through multiple indices in a > single shard, and have a distributed search across all shards. > > -- > With Thanks and Regards, > Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, > Project Trainee, > Zoho Corporation. > +91 9626975420 -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
