Marc, Do you need to be able to query this field at the same time as other fields, or is the searching case isolated?
Because if you can isolate searches that hit this field to just this field, you could do it with a sidecar index and joins. Michael Della Bitta Applications Developer o: +1 646 532 3062 | c: +1 917 477 7906 appinions inc. “The Science of Influence Marketing” 18 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017 t: @appinions <https://twitter.com/Appinions> | g+: plus.google.com/appinions<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112002776285509593336/112002776285509593336/posts> w: appinions.com <http://www.appinions.com/> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Marc Brette <marc.bre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
