I wonder what if I add new field in the schema, do i have to reindex? If no need to reindex, can i just update the schema.xml directly? After that, Should I restart the tomcat service?
If no need to reindex, how about the existing documents? If I do a query with new field, does it cause errors? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Brian, > > Yes, you do need to reindex. We've used Hadoop with Solr to speed up > indexing > by orders of magnitude for some of our customers. Something to consider. > > Otis > ---- > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Brian Lamb <brian.l...@journalexperts.com> > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 11:53:27 AM > > Subject: Changing the schema > > > > If I change the field type in my schema, do I need to rebuild the entire > > index? I'm at a point now where it takes over a day to do a full import > due > > to the sheer size of my application and I would prefer not having to > reindex > > just because I want to make a change somewhere. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Lamb > > > -- Chhorn Chamnap http://chamnapchhorn.blogspot.com/