Return all contents from collection

[Dan Baughman <da...@hostworks.com>]

Is there a way I can simply tell the index to return its entire record set?

I tried starting and ending with just  a "*" but no dice.

Re: Return all contents from collection

[Jonathan Rochkind <ro...@jhu.edu>]

I know that this is often a performance problem -- but Erick, I am 
interested in the 'better solution' you hint at!

There are a variety of cases where you want to 'dump' all documents from 
a collection. One example might be in order to build a Google SiteMap 
for your app that's fronting your Solr. That's mine at the moment.   If 
anyone can think of a way to do this that doesn't have horrible 
performance (and bonus points if it doesn't completely mess up caches 
too by filling them with everything), that would be awesome.

Jonathan

On 1/18/2011 8:47 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> This is usually a bad idea, but if you really must use
> q=*:*&start=0&rows=1000000
>
> Assuming that there are fewer than 1,000,000 documents in your index.
>
> And if there are more, you won't like the performance anyway.....
>
> Why do you want to do this? There might be a better solution.
>
> Best
> Erick
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dan Baughman<da...@hostworks.com>  wrote:
>
>> Is there a way I can simply tell the index to return its entire record set?
>>
>> I tried starting and ending with just  a "*" but no dice.
>>

Re: Return all contents from collection

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

This is usually a bad idea, but if you really must use
q=*:*&start=0&rows=1000000

Assuming that there are fewer than 1,000,000 documents in your index.

And if there are more, you won't like the performance anyway.....

Why do you want to do this? There might be a better solution.

Best
Erick

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dan Baughman <da...@hostworks.com> wrote:

> Is there a way I can simply tell the index to return its entire record set?
>
> I tried starting and ending with just  a "*" but no dice.
>