Hi Ron, If you turn off autoCommit and only commit after your delete and refresh, the user's experience will be totally uninterrupted. Commits are used to control visibility in a Solr index.
Michael Della Bitta ------------------------------------------------ Appinions 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10017-6271 www.appinions.com Where Influence Isn’t a Game On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Ron Poling <ron.pol...@teamexpress.com>wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to solr and trying to figure out how to implement it in our > environment. My question involves building the index. Our data does not > lend itself to delta updates so we have to build the entire index each > time. Is there some way to feed solr a file with all index records and tell > it to throw away all current data and use only the new? I'm guessing that I > could delete everything and add all the new records, but until the new > index was built, solr would not be able to service my web app. I would like > to build the new index in solr and then tell it to switch to it and remove > the old one. Is that possible? Another way of doing the might be to update > the current index with the new data and then delete everything that didn't > get updated. > > Any help here would be appreciated so I can focus on the things in the > wiki that I need to before I start implementing. Thanks! >