I guess it is possible just that nobody has contributed a patch yet. That sounds about right though.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:04 AM, vb2317 <vaibhav.bhandar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The split-shard feature of SolrCloud has been around for a while. And it > sounds like a necessary feature to be able to scale down a system, that was > scaled up (to optimize resource utilization). > > What is the reason that MergeShard has not been introduced in SolrCloud > yet? > > I imagine I could perform a MergeShard by doing the following: > 1. Copy the indexes to the same node. > 2. Call merge-index command from Core api. > 3. Update clusterstate.json to reflect the change (This seems non-trivial: > updating range, shards, replicas, leaders etc.) > > Does this sound right? > > Thanks, > VB > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Why-does-SolrCloud-not-support-merge-shard-yet-tp4142182.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.