Yeah, I think we are missing some docs on this… I think the info is in here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2592
But it's not so easy to pick out - I'd been considering going through and writing up some wiki doc for that feature (unless I'm somehow missing it), but just been too busy with other stuff.. Concerning CloudSolrServer, there is a JIRA to make it hash and send updates to the "right" leader, but currently it still doesn't - it just favors leaders in general over non leaders currently. - Mark On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:34 AM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> wrote: > Hi, > > By defaut SolrCloud partitions records by the hash of the uniqueKey field but > we want to do some tests and partition the records by a signed integer field > but keep the current uniqueKey unique. I've scanned through several issues > concerning distributed index, custom hashing, shard policies etc but i have > not found some concise examples or documentation or even blog post on this > matter. > > How do we set up shard partitioning via another than the default uniqueKey > field? > > According to some older resolved issue CloudSolrServer should be cloud aware > and send updates to the leader of the correct shards, how does it know this? > Must we set up the same partitioning in SolrServer client as well? If so, > how? The apidocs do not reveal a lot when i look through them. > > I probably totally missed an issue or discussion or wiki page. > > Thanks, > Markus
