Aliases are like pointers to collections that can be used in-place anywhere you'd use the collection name. See https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_4/collections-api.html#createalias <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_4/collections-api.html#createalias>
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 13. aug. 2018 kl. 16:46 skrev THADC <timothy.clotworthy.j...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Shawn, thanks for this response. We are probably going to take your > suggested approach: > > 1. Upload a new configset to ZooKeeper. > 2. Create a new collection using the new configset. > 3. Index data into the new collection. > 4. Set up an alias with the original collection name, pointing at the > new collection. > 5. When you're sure it's good, delete the old collection. > > I have a question about step 4. What is the actual mechanism for the > aliasing? Is the alias something that would be defined in the schema.xml > file, or are you speaking more generally about something that would be > crafted in our application code or even like a sym link at the operating > system level? > > Thanks, Tim > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html
