multivalue

I'm trying to perform a full-import with document configuration similar to the following: <document> <entity name="parent" query="select * from parent_table" > <field name="id" column="ID" /> <entity name="child" query="select * from child_table where PARENT_ID = ${parent.ID}" transformer="ClobTransformer" > <field name="${child.FIELD_COLUMN}" column="VALUE_COLUMN" clob="true" /> </entity> </entity> </document> Let's say the field/value results from the child_table for parent.ID=1 look like this: FIELD_COLUMN VALUE_COLUMN fieldA value1 fieldB value2 fieldB value3 And the schema configuration

Solr 4.x has this nice new feature that lets you specify how, when doing an update on an existing document, the multiValued fields will be updated. Specifically, you can say if the update document will replace the old values of a multivalued field with the new ones, or if it should append the new values to the existing ones. I've tried this using the request handler, as described here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22 I've used curl to send xml where some fields used the update=add option: <field name="skills" update="add">Python</field> This