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Yonik Seeley commented on SOLR-1709:
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Seems useful enough that setting NOW should be advertised (i.e. not just an
internal call). For example, it would be a convenient way to keep the rest of
your request the same, but check how the current date affects your date
boosting strategies. NOW isn't just for date faceting, but for anything that
uses date math.
As for the format, 20091231 is ambiguous if you want flexible dates... is it a
date or milliseconds?
I first thought of a prefix (ms:123456789) but it makes it look like a field
query.
It might be safest to make it unambiguous somehow... postfix with ms?
123456789ms
> Distributed Date Faceting
> -------------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-1709
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1709
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SearchComponents - other
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Reporter: Peter Sturge
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: FacetComponent.java, ResponseBuilder.java
>
>
> This patch is for adding support for date facets when using distributed
> searches.
> Date faceting across multiple machines exposes some time-based issues that
> anyone interested in this behaviour should be aware of:
> Any time and/or time-zone differences are not accounted for in the patch
> (i.e. merged date facets are at a time-of-day, not necessarily at a universal
> 'instant-in-time', unless all shards are time-synced to the exact same time).
> The implementation uses the first encountered shard's facet_dates as the
> basis for subsequent shards' data to be merged in.
> This means that if subsequent shards' facet_dates are skewed in relation to
> the first by >1 'gap', these 'earlier' or 'later' facets will not be merged
> in.
> There are several reasons for this:
> * Performance: It's faster to check facet_date lists against a single map's
> data, rather than against each other, particularly if there are many shards
> * If 'earlier' and/or 'later' facet_dates are added in, this will make the
> time range larger than that which was requested
> (e.g. a request for one hour's worth of facets could bring back 2, 3
> or more hours of data)
> This could be dealt with if timezone and skew information was added, and
> the dates were normalized.
> One possibility for adding such support is to [optionally] add 'timezone' and
> 'now' parameters to the 'facet_dates' map. This would tell requesters what
> time and TZ the remote server thinks it is, and so multiple shards' time data
> can be normalized.
> The patch affects 2 files in the Solr core:
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.FacetComponent.java
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.ResponseBuilder.java
> The main changes are in FacetComponent - ResponseBuilder is just to hold the
> completed SimpleOrderedMap until the finishStage.
> One possible enhancement is to perhaps make this an optional parameter, but
> really, if facet.date parameters are specified, it is assumed they are
> desired.
> Comments & suggestions welcome.
> As a favour to ask, if anyone could take my 2 source files and create a PATCH
> file from it, it would be greatly appreciated, as I'm having a bit of trouble
> with svn (don't shoot me, but my environment is a Redmond-based os company).
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