It appears this has all been resolved by the following ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9446
My scenario fails in 6.2.1, but works in 6.3 and Master where this bug has been fixed. In the meantime, we can use our workaround to issue a simple delete command that deletes a non-existent document. Jim -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-Cloud-A-B-Deployment-Issue-tp4302810p4303210.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.