You can't copy+merge+flatten indices like that. Reindexing would be the easiest. Indexing taking weeks sounds suspicious. How much data are you reindexing and how big are your indices?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: ristretto.rb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:14:16 PM > Subject: How to copy a solr index to another index with a different schema > collapsing stored data? > > Is it possible to copy stored index data from index to another, but > concatenating it as you go. > > Suppose 2 categories A and B both with 20 docs, for a total of 40 docs > in the index. The index has a stored field for the content from the > docs. > > I want a new index with only two docs in it, one for A and one for B. > And it would have a stored field that is the sum of all the stored > data for the 20 docs of A and of B respectively. > > So, then a query on this index will tell me give me a relevant list of > Categories? > > Perhaps there's a solr query to get that data out, and then I can > handle concatenating it, and then indexing it in the new index. > > I'm hoping I don't have to reindex all this data from scratch? It has > taken weeks! > > thanks > gene