Awesome - always refreshing to hear everyone leaning the same
direction! And thanks Uwe for the additional context!
I'll push up a PR to take this out of the ref-guide shortly.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 7:07 AM Uwe Schindler wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I think we should remove the page from the refguide.
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Hi,
I think we should remove the page from the refguide.
I won't remove that tool from Lucene's JARs as it is a good example vor the
Actually there are many othe rthings some customers of myself wanted to
upgrade. I you have one, lead them to me. I helped a customer which was
unable to reinde
Interestingly, yesterday at the Search "Bird of Feather' @ Community Over
Code, Bratislava I brought this up too. All of us present in the room had
the same opinion about the page that at this point it only creates
confusion and we should remove it. For folks using older Solr versions,
this might s
I used it back in the days when you could migrate from v3->4->5->6. It solved
the issue that Solr 6 could only read a Lucene 6 or Lucene 5 index, but after
the
sequence of upgrades you'd get there. I even wrote a wrapper to automate it all
at
https://github.com/cominvent/solr-tools/tree/master/up
I've fielded many questions on this from clients. Folks who have managed
databases expect to be able to upgrade the data serially across versions
and such, so these questions come up alot with organizations early in their
journey with search. Essentially, I tell them that it's a stop gap tool for
u
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
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 i
