> The action of changing the schema makes zero changes in the index. It > merely changes how Solr interacts with the index.
Do you mean "copy fields" is only an action of changing the schema ? I was thinking it was adding a new field and eventually a new index to the collection On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:59:03AM -0700, Shawn Heisey wrote: > On 12/24/2019 10:45 AM, Nicolas Paris wrote: > > From my understanding, copy fields creates an new indexes from the > > copied fields. > > From my tests, I copied 1k textual fields into _text_ with copyFields. > > As a result there is no increase in the size of the collection. All the > > source fields are indexed and stored. The _text_ field is indexed but > > not stored. > > > > This is a great surprise but is this behavior expected ? > > The action of changing the schema makes zero changes in the index. It > merely changes how Solr interacts with the index. > > If you want the index to change when the schema is changed, you need to > restart or reload and then re-do the indexing after the change is saved. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/HowToReindex > > Thanks, > Shawn > -- nicolas
