Ah thanks for the help. Actually I tried that first off before I went researching and found the collection parameter. However, since you prompted me, I went back and, looking at my logs, I realize now that I mangled the shards syntax when I doing my hand coded tests against solr4. The syntax is
http://solr-box/core1/select?shards=solr-box/core2,solr-box/core3&q=<http://solr-box/core1/select?shards=http://solr-box/core2,http://solr-box/core3&q=> . not http://solr-box/core1/select?shards=http://solr-box/core2,http://solr-box/core3&q= . The latter caused IO errors and lead me to falsely conclude that it did not work in Solr4. :( Again thanks. --Ken On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, the collections param is only for SolrCloud. > > But if your not using SolrCloud, the same stuff you did on Solr3 should > work on Solr4… > > - Mark > > On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Baltrinic < > kbaltri...@bericotechnologies.com> wrote: > > > We are in the process of upgrading a single instance Solr 3 > implementation > > to Solr 4. The instance contains multiple cores that share the same > schema > > (in fact they share the same instanceDir but with distinct dataDirs). We > > also need the ability to perform cross-index queries. In Solr3 we have > > been using the shards parameter to do this in a manner similar to the > > following: > > > > > http://solr-box/core1/select?shards=http://solr-box/core2,http://solr-box/core3&q= > . > > .. > > > > The above approach was taken from this blog article: > > http://blog.shutupandcode.net/?p=1136 > > > > Now, having setup a single instance solr4 server, we are trying the > > following: > > > > http://solr-box/core1/select?collection=core2,core3&q=... > > > > The query runs w/o error but only returns results from core1. The > > documentation seems to imply that the collection parameter will only work > > if we are using "SolrCloud" aka, solr w/zookeeper, etc. Since we only > need > > one solr instance this seems overkill. Are we missing something? Is > there > > way to just use a basic Solr4 setup and still query across collections? > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. If I left out needed details I will be > > happy to answer questions. > > > > --Ken > >
