Aaron,

We are trying to externalize RowId to Shard mapping, instead of current
hashing algo.

We thought of storing this in a META shard, where lucene's in-memory
postings format can be used.

Also BlurClient can cache these mappings so there are progressively fewer
trips to the meta-shard.

--
Ravi



On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote:

> When you get a change let us know what the use case is that you are solving
> and perhaps we can add a feature to handle it.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Tim,
> >
> > Shall surely do that. That should suffice
> >
> > --
> > Ravi
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Tim Williams <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday, June 27, 2014, Ravikumar Govindarajan <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We have a use-case whereby there is a need for a META shard. We don't
> > > store
> > > > row-documents here as other normal shards, but some arbitrary
> > searchable
> > > > meta-data
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible in Blur to do this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Ravi,
> > > Why not just create a "meta" table and put it in there with a 1-1
> > > row-record relationship?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --tim
> > >
> >
>

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