On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : I have a small worry though. When I call the full-import functions, can > : I configure Solr (via the XML files) to make sure there are rows to > : index before wiping everything? What worries me is if, for some unknown > : reason, we have an empty database, then the full-import will just wipe > : the live index and the search will be broken. > > I believe if you set clear=false when doing the full-import, DIH won't it is clean=false
or use command=import instead of command=full-import > delete the entire index before it starts. it probably makes the > full-import slower (most of the adds wind up being deletes followed by > adds) but it should prevent you from having an empty index if something > goes wrong with your DB. > > the big catch is you now have to be responsible for managing deletes > (using the XmlUpdateRequestHandler) yourself ... this bug looks like it's > goal is to make this easier to deal with (but i'd not really clear to > me what "deletedPkQuery" is ... it doesnt' seem to be documented. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1168 > > > > -Hoss > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Systems Architect| AOL | http://aol.com
