I believe you may be able to use that command (or some combination of create alias commands) to create an alias from A to A, and then in the future when you want to change it you can have Alias A to collection B (assuming this is the point of the alias in the first place).
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:53 PM ufuk yılmaz <uyil...@vivaldi.net.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > I’m aware of that API but it doesn’t do what I actually want. > > regards > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: matthew sporleder > Sent: 07 January 2021 22:46 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Converting a collection name to an alias > > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_1/collections-api.html#rename > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:07 PM ufuk yılmaz <uyil...@vivaldi.net.invalid> > wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > Lets say I have a collection named A. > > I’m trying to rename it to A_1, then create an alias named A, which > points to the A_1 collection. > > Is this possible without deleting and reindexing the collection from > scratch? > > > > Regards, > > uyilmaz > > > >
