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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:02:28 -0700
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Subject: Re: Sharing indexes
From: Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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You should not be copying things into a Solr index unless
1> you absolutely and totally guarantee that no current Solr is running
2> you absolutely and totally guarantee that you replace it entirely


You're really just asking for maintenance issues with this approach. I'd do
one
of two things:
1> ship your product with a pre-existing index that holds your documents
or, preferably
2> use the MERGEINDEX core admin API command to get your required
docs in the "live" index.

<2> is robustly supported and has a far greater chance of not giving you
grief.

Best,
Erick

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Henrique O. Santos <hensantos@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alessandro,
>
> The requirement is pretty simple. We have a product that makes use of Solr
> collections. Anyone can download the product and deploy it locally
> (alongside a local Solr instance) on their own machine and start using it.
> To make it clear, each installation of the product operates by itself and
> does not have knowledge of any other. It is meant to work on its own.
>
> For the product to work properly, the collections need to have some
> starting documents there, like an admin user for instance in the user
> collection.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>
> On 09/23/2015 10:44 AM, Alessandro Benedetti wrote:
>
>> Honestly is highly discouraged to share an index, making N Solr nodes
>> using
>> it.
>>   Can you express better your requirement ? Why can't you replicate the
>> index ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> 2015-09-23 15:37 GMT+01:00 Henrique O. Santos <hensantos@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> In our development efforts, we came into the necessity of sharing Solr
>>> indexes with some initial documents to be deployed alongside our
>>> application. For that, I just started copying the collection directory
>>> with
>>> its conf and data subdirs.
>>>
>>> That worked for some time, but it now I am getting some random errors.
>>> One
>>> of them says:
>>> "SolrIndexWriter was not closed prior to finalize(), indicates a bug --
>>> POSSIBLE RESOURCE LEAK!!!"
>>>
>>> and the other:
>>> "Error creating core [users]: Error opening new searcher"
>>>
>>> Errors show up when starting up Solr. And after multiples restarts,
>>> eventually the cores start.
>>>
>>> So, is there any guidelines for sharing existing indexes?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Henrique.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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