> I am not quite sure what you mean by "you're probably stuck coordinating > the > results externally. " Do you mean, searching in each index and then somehow > merge results manually? will I still be able to use shards parameters? or > no? >
If your schemas don't match up, you can't use distributed search, so yes, manual merging. You can't use the shards parameter across indexes with incompatible schema. I'd strongly consider just including all the fields in a single schema and leaving them blank if they don't apply to a given type of data. > Also, I was planning to use php library SolrClient. Do you see any > downside? > No, this works fine!
