ParallelReader and updateDocument don't play nice?

["Groose, Brian" <Br...@ironmountain.com>]

I have been looking at using ParallelReader as its documentation indicates, to allow certain fields to be updated while most of the fields will not be updated.

However, this does not seem possible.  Let's say I have two indexes, A and B, which are used in a ParallelReader.  If I update a document in index B, then I must also update the same document in index A, otherwise the documents in the two indexes do not line up.  This kind of defeats the purpose of using two indexes with ParallelReader, since I could just use a single index and update the one document as usual, ParallelReader buys me nothing but more complexity.

Am I missing something here?  Is there some way to update a Document (or Field) so that it won't actually be a delete+add?

It would seem that to update a single Document or Field in index B I really need to fully re-index B with the documents in the same order, which gets expensive if you have tens of millions of documents in the index.

Thoughts?

Thanks!



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