[ic] More than one swish-e index per catalog?

[DB]

> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 10:39 -0400, DB wrote:
>> I see in the docs:
>> 
>> > To configure your catalog to use Swish, modify the appropriate catalog.cfg and add:
>> > 
>> > Swish command /usr/bin/swish-e
>> > Swish index products/swish-e.db
>> 
>> 
>> This implies that I can search only one swish-e index per catalog. Is
>> this indeed the case?
>> 
>> DB
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> 
> Not at all.  Multiple indexes can be searched in a single catalog just
> by adding additional lines to catalog.cfg, (and also running additional
> engines with cron)
> 
> Swish command /usr/bin/swish-e
> Swish index products/swish-e.index.1.db
> Swish index products/swish-e.index.2.db
> 
> I would only do this if there was a strong reason to keep them separate
> though.  People don't really understand by default that their search is
> only looking at one index or the other...
> 
> Rick

OK thanks - I can't find much detail in the documentation. I suppose
there's always the code itself. How would a swish-e form know which
index to search?

DB