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Erick Erickson commented on LUCENE-8832:
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This would be A Good Thing, we've seen rogue programs in the field create
millions of fields. Could we wrapt such a thing in something that would use
"singleton merge" to rewrite all segments without merging too large segments?
> Support for field removal and renaming
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>
> Key: LUCENE-8832
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8832
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
> Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
> Priority: Major
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> Currently it's not possible to rename existing Lucene fields or delete them
> without creating a new index from scratch (FieldInfos are basically
> append-only).
> This issue proposes to investigate an approach that applies these changes at
> a Codec level so that the unwanted data is skipped over (in case of field
> delete) or accessed under a different name (in case of field rename). Since
> the same Codec API is used for segment merging the deletion / removal
> filtering could be applied only to the currently existing segments because
> the resulting merged segments would not contain this data anymore.
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