Github user merrimanr commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/995#discussion_r184158654
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@@ -95,3 +95,19 @@ As of now, we have mapped out the Schemas in
`src/main/config/schema`.
Ambari will eventually install these, but at the moment it's manual and
you should refer to the Solr documentation
[https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6](here) in general
and
[here](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/documents-fields-and-schema-design.html)
if you'd like to know more about schemas in Solr.
+
+In Metron's Solr DAO implementation, document updates involve reading a
document, applying the update and reindexing the whole document.
+Indexing LatLon and PointType field types stores data in internal fields
that should not be returned in search results. For these fields a dynamic
field type matching the suffix needs to be added to store the data points.
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This problem exists for these types in 5.5 and 6.6. I added a comment that
recommends using a different spatial field type if on version 6+.
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