[SOLR-2253] Solr should be able to keep on truckin' if a shard fails during a distributed search

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: search

Environment

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• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rich Cariens
• Created: 25/Nov/10 20:24
• Updated: 10/May/13 14:39
• Resolved: 08/Mar/12 09:40

Description

Solr 1.4.x currently abandons searches if a shard fails during a distributed search. A trivial patch to the SearchHandler class would allow the user to tell Solr to "keep on trucking" in these cases. Solr can indicate that the search response is "partial" via existing response header conventions, as well as include details about which shard failed.

Issue Links

• duplicates: SOLR-1143 Return partial results when a connection to a shard is refused