You can index to an alias that points at only one collection. Works fine! 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, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > I've used this feature to great effect. I have logs coming in, and I > create a core for each day. At the end of each day, I create a new core > for tomorrow, unload any cores over 2 months old, then create a set of > aliases ("all", "month", "week", "today") pointing to just the cores > that are needed for that range. Thus, my app can efficiently query the > bit of the index it is really interested in. > > You cannot, as far as I am aware, index directly to an alias. It > wouldn't know what to do with the content. However, you can create an > alias over the top of an existing one, and it will replace it. Works > nicely. > > Upayavira > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Jan Høydahl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been asked the same question. There are only DELETEALIAS and > > CREATEALIAS actions available, so is there a way to achieve uninterrupted > > switch of an alias from one index to another? Are we lacking a MOVEALIAS > > command? > > > > -- > > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > > > 27. sep. 2013 kl. 10:46 skrev Yago Riveiro <yago.rive...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I need delete the alias for the old collection before point it to the > new, right? > > > > > > -- > > > Yago Riveiro > > > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > > > > > > > On Friday, September 27, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Imagine you have an index and you need to reindex your data into a new > > >> index, but don't want to have to reconfigure or restart client apps > > >> when you want to point them to the new index. This is where aliases > > >> come in handy. If you created an alias for the first index and made > > >> your apps hit that alias, then you can just repoint the same alias to > > >> your new index and avoid having to touch client apps. > > >> > > >> No, I don't think you can write to multiple collections through a > single alias. > > >> > > >> Otis > > >> -- > > >> Solr & ElasticSearch Support -- http://sematext.com/ > > >> Performance Monitoring -- http://sematext.com/spm > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, yriveiro <yago.rive...@gmail.com(mailto: > yago.rive...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > >>> Today I was thinking about the ALIAS feature and the utility on Solr. > > >>> > > >>> Can anyone explain me with an example where this feature may be > useful? > > >>> > > >>> It's possible have an ALIAS of multiples collections, if I do a > write to the > > >>> alias, Is this write replied to all collections? > > >>> > > >>> /Yago > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> ----- > > >>> Best regards > > >>> -- > > >>> View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/ALIAS-feature-can-be-used-for-what-tp4092095.html > > >>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com ( > http://Nabble.com). > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > >
