Thanks for the suggestions, Shawn.
Unfortunately in this case, I don't think there is a natural key to use as the primary key due to the requirements of having multiple versions of the source indexed at the same time. I have now found a way to tweak the delete query in order for it to not overlap the added documents. I will go with either that or sending the deletes as separate requests. Just as a clarification, however: am I correct to assume that the multi-update operations are executed in an undefined order and can fail partially when sent like this? It's my leading theory for a bug I am investigating at the moment, and seems very likely given what I've seen, but it's also very hard to reproduce. Regards, Andreas Nilsson ________________________________ From: Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:33 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Adding and deleting documents in the same update request On 1/23/2019 5:58 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Related: in the case where I cannot rely on the operations order in a single > update request, is there a recommended way to do these kinds of updates > "atomically" in a single request? Ideally, I obviously don't want the > collection to be left in a state where the deletion has happened but not the > additions or the other way around. Assuming that you have a uniqueKey field and that you are replacing an existing document, do not issue a delete for that document at all. When you index a document with the same value in the uniqueKey field as an existing document, Solr will handle the delete of the existing document for you. When a uniqueKey is present, you should only issue delete commands for documents that will be permanently deleted. Alternatively, send deletes in their own request, separate from inserts. If you take this route, wait for acknowledgement from the delete before sending the insert. Thanks, Shawn
