Hi Roman, do you have solved your problem and how?
Regards, Kai Gülzau > -----Original Message----- > From: Roman Chyla [mailto:roman.ch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 4:50 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Is there anything like MultiSearcher? > > Dear Solr experts, > > Could you recommend some strategies or perhaps tell me if I approach > my problem from a wrong side? I was hoping to use MultiSearcher to > search across multiple indexes in Solr, but there is no such a thing > and MultiSearcher was removed according to this post: > http://osdir.com/ml/solr-user.lucene.apache.org/2011-01/msg00250.html > > I though I had two use cases: > > 1. maintenance - I wanted to build two separate indexes, one for > fulltext and one for metadata (the docs have the unique ids) - > indexing them separately would make things much simpler > 2. ability to switch indexes at search time (ie. for testing purposes > - one fulltext index could be built by Solr standard mechanism, the > other by a rather different process - independent instance of lucene) > > I think the recommended approach is to use the Distributed search - I > found a nice solution here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139030/search-multiple-sol r-cores-and-return-one-result-set > - however it seems to me, that data are sent over HTTP (5M from one > core, and 5M from the other core being merged by the 3rd solr core?) > and I would like to do it only for local indexes and without the > network overhead. > > Could you please shed some light if there already exist an optimal > solution to my use cases? And if not, whether I could just try to > build a new SolrQuerySearcher that is extending lucene MultiSearcher > instead of IndexSearch - or you think there are some deeply rooted > problems there and the MultiSearch-er cannot work inside Solr? > > Thank you, > > Roman > >