Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to add new field without re-indexing.
As for extracting content from the field, it should be possible to retrieve data if the term vectors were stored with positions offset (Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS). If not, I don't think it's possible. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Naveen Kumar <id.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I need to add a new field (a stored , not indexed field) for all documents > present in an existing large index. Reindexing the whole index will be very > costly. Is there a way to do this or any work around? > > I would also like to know, if data or term vector, of a field indexed > without storing, can somehow be retrieved. This would enable a work around > solution to my problem. > > Thank you > Naveen Kumar > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
