Solr indexing

[niraj tulachan <nj...@yahoo.com>]

Hi all,
     I have successfully implemented the Solr so far but there are couple of questions I want the solr user to shine a light on them:
  1) In Solr, we create an index by POSTing a XML file to the server.  However, is there a way we can do that same process by db(containg metadat) approach?
  2) while updating the pre-exist index, the update won't happen until we do the "commit" on it.  However, While updating the index (before doing 'commit'), can we still search on that index (to use the old content)?
  Any info will be highly appericated..
  Cheers,
  Niraj

       
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Re: Solr indexing

[Mike Klaas <mi...@gmail.com>]

On 3-Jul-07, at 3:08 PM, niraj tulachan wrote:

> Hi all,
>      I have successfully implemented the Solr so far but there are  
> couple of questions I want the solr user to shine a light on them:
>   1) In Solr, we create an index by POSTing a XML file to the  
> server.  However, is there a way we can do that same process by db 
> (containg metadat) approach?

Yes, but I'm not familiar with the techniques.

>   2) while updating the pre-exist index, the update won't happen  
> until we do the "commit" on it.  However, While updating the index  
> (before doing 'commit'), can we still search on that index (to use  
> the old content)?

Aboslutely.  This is the central tenet of Solr.

-Mike