Compatiblity with websolr about activerecord-postgres-hstore

[diogob]

Sorry, I've never used websolr. If websolr is able to read hstore fields in their string representation I think it can work.

[nz]

For posterity: Solr presents an HTTP API, and typically it's up to a client interface to interact with it. You could use a Solr client like Sunspot for the integration with Solr, though the use case for indexing a relatively generic feature like Postgres hstore for dynamic columns may be somewhat application specific.

One nice conceptual overlap here is that Solr also has a flexible schema. So it may work well to map hstore key-value pairs directly to Solr document field-value pairs. Then you have the flexibility to query those key-value pairs in Solr as well as in Postgres.

Seems interesting.

[diogob]

You could also use PostgreSQL native full text indexing and use some database functions to convert the hstore to a text representation that could be indexed. If this approach would suit your needs, of course.

[nz]

Quite. The salient point being that this kind of integration is possible, and more of an application level concern.

[diogob]

I think @nz pretty much nailed it in this last post.