This is in regards to changing a field type from string to text_en_splitting, re-indexing all documents, even optimizing to give the index a chance to merge segments and rewrite itself entirely, and then getting this error when running a phrase query: java.lang.IllegalStateException: field "blah" was indexed without position data; cannot run PhraseQuery
I have encountered this issue before and have always done one of the following as a work-around: 1. Instead of changing the field type on an existing field just create a new field and retire the old one. 2. Delete the index directory and start from scratch. These work-arounds are not always ideal. Does anyone know what is holding onto that old field type definition? What thinks it is still a string? Every document has been re-indexed and I am sure of this because I have a time stamp indexed. Is there any other way to get this to work? For what it is worth, I am running this in SolrCloud mode but I remember seeing this issue before SolrCloud was released as well.
