Thanks Jacks! That was very helpful.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > If never used, they take up zero space in the index. > > If they were used but are no longed used, they're still there, but any new > or replaced documents will not take up any space for the unused fields > (subject to the facet that deleted fields still exist until a > merge/optimize compresses them away.) > > But, yes, should should try to keep your schema clean - but if the fields > are still populated in some of the documents, you might eventually find > some need to reference them. > > You should keep your schema and config files in a version control system > so that you can always go back or view differences. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Ali, Saqib > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 11:55 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: unused fields in Solr schema.xml increase the index size > > > Hello all, > > Do unused fields in Solr Schem.xml increase the size of the index files? > > Should we be cleaning up those fields? > > Thanks. > > Saqib >
