Our data comes from file system and from web and so adding the auto-increment field at the datasource is not possible.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 4/5/2012 1:53 AM, Manish Bafna wrote: > >> Hi, >>> Is it possible to define a field as "Counter Column" which can be >>> auto-incremented. >>> >> > Manish, > > Where does your data come from? Can you add the autoincrement field to > the data source? > > My data comes from MySQL, where the private key is an autoincrement field. > MySQL is very good at autoincrement fields. > > Walter, we do have two unique ID values in our system, enforced by MySQL, > and it hasn't caused us any problems yet. One is the autoincrement field > just mentioned and the other is another id that is specific to our > application. We use the autoincrement field to identify deleted documents > and as a position indicator for the build program to add new documents to > Solr. The other unique field is Solr's uniqueKey. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
