> This has always been part of our index back-compat promise. Ie, as > long as all segments were written with version N-1, in version N of > Lucene you can open up the index and do anything (searching, > adding/updating/deleting docs, etc.) with it.
+1 - I think a lot of people that would try the alpha and beta probably did not try and do the transparant upgrade - likely they started fresh (I know I would not flip in an alpha or beta on my old index unless I copied it first - more likely I would just experiment with some fresh data). And many that did try that probably just have not tickled this issue ... yet. I think we should follow our promise to work with an index version back. If we have to switch to a tool in the end, fine. But obviously something is broken right now - either in the doc or the process - somewhere there is a blocker here one way or another. This guys experience was not right and it's hard to believe it's his fault. Upgrades should be simple and precise and without surprises. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
