FWIW, in my experience I've never run this tool (nor colleagues) at
any stage in my career that I can remember.  For one reason, all the
systems could re-index if they needed to.
It may be best to remove this information, as it could introduce more
confusion than it helps.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I was poking around the ref-guide a bit recently and noticed our page
> on the "IndexUpgraderTool" that Lucene produces. [1]
>
> AFAICT, the page doesn't hint at when/why a user might want to use the
> IndexUpgraderTool.  Maybe at one point the tool might've been
> preferred to loading the index in an upgraded Solr version, but I
> haven't heard of anyone doing that in the last few years.
>
> Is this something we expect users to still do?  If so, for what
> usecase?  And if not - should we drop it from the ref-guide - it seems
> like it might confuse folks since it's not actually needed to upgrade
> Solr versions...
>
> Best,
>
> Jason
>
> [1] 
> https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/indexupgrader-tool.html
>
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