I'm using Solr and Solr:Cell plugin to index and search rich text documents and metadata.
DEFINITION: solr_document = tuple(rich_text_document, metadata1, metadata2)
I want to reindex some solr_documents when metadata changes, but only the parts in the solr_document that chaged, not the whole solr_documnt, because parsing and extracting text from rich text documents is computing expensive and pointless since the rich text document was not modified.
Does Solr support partial document index updates?
Aditional:
I'm using Solr via sunspot in a Rails application.
One of the main sunspot developers says here that:
Solr does not support the concept of partial updates -- under the hood, updating a document actually consists of removing it from the index and then re-adding it. So, Sunspot does have to construct the full document each time anything changes; it's an unfortunate limitation from a performance standpoint, but it's pretty fundamental to the way Solr and Lucene work.
Is there anything that can be done, maybe Solr:Cell allows something?
