Thanks for the feedback. Will read up on upgrading. I actually went with the trunk, not a nightly.
When you say Test ... Are you suggesting there is a test suite I should run, or do just do my own testing? thanks gene On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:46 AM, ristretto.rb <ristretto...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 1. I would need to get the source for 1.4 and build it, right? No >> release yet, eh? > > > Nope. > > >> >> 2. Any one using 1.4 in production without issue; is this wise? Or >> should I wait? > > > Running a nightly is always a risky business. Test comprehensively first. > > >> >> 3. Will I need to make changes to my schema.xml to support my current >> field set under 1.4? > > > No, it should be back-compatible. > > Also look at the Upgrading from 1.3 section in CHANGES.txt > > >> >> 4. Do I need to reindex all my data? >> > > It should be able to read your existing index. Since it uses a newer version > of Lucene, once you write anything, the index format will change and will no > longer be readable by Solr 1.3 > > So make sure you upgrade the slaves before the master. > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >
