Unfortunately, it needs to be searchable Very good pointer anyway, I'll keep that in mind
On Friday, August 2, 2013, Michael Della Bitta wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Have you considered using ExternalFileField for this? > On Aug 2, 2013 11:54 AM, "Marc Brette" <marc.bre...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I would like to completely populate a field for all the documents in the > > index, without re-indexing the documents. > > > > I know Solr supports 'Atomic Update', but this is no a real incremental > > update of a document: it costs as much as re-indexing the document (and > > require to store the document). > > As Solr does not support a real incremental update, I wondered if that > > would be easier to completely re-populate a field (i.e. easier than > > inserting/modifying in the middle of a field index). > > > > My use-case is the following: > > - I have an index with a bunch of documents. > > - A background process computes some additional metadata for the > documents. > > It produces metadata in batch for all the documents. > > - These metadata are added in bulk to the existing index. > > > > Any ideas? Let me know if this is more a question for the dev list. > > > > Thanks, > > Marc > > >
