Custom routers is an idea that is floated around ad easy to implement. Just that it is something we resist to add another extension point.
The point is we are planning other features which would obviate the need for a custom router. Something like splitting a shard by a query. Will it be a good enough solution for you? On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:52 PM, lochri <loc...@web.de> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. > > Still I would think it is sub-optimal to split shards when we actually don't > know which mailboxes we actually split. It may create splits of small users > which leads to unnecessary distribution of the smaller users. > > We thought about doing the routing ourself. As far as a I understood we can > do distributed searches across multiple collections. What do you think about > this option ? > > For the ideal solution: when will custom routers be supported ? > > Regards, > Lochri > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Hash-range-to-shard-assignment-tp4091204p4091503.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul
