You’ll have subtle, or not so subtle problems. String types are a single token,
so a document with “my dog has fleas” will not be returned when searching for
any of those 4 words. My definition there’s no position information in stored
with the string type, so no phrases will work against docs i
Reindexing to alias is not always easy if it requires 2x resources. Just to
be clear the issues you mentioned are mostly around faceting because we
haven't seen any other search/retrieval issues. Or is that not accurate?
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:12 PM Erick Erickson
wrote:
> 1> I strongly recom
1> I strongly recommend you re-index into a new collection and switch to it
with a collection alias rather than try to re-index all the docs. Segment
merging with the same field with dissimilar definitions is not guaranteed to do
the right thing.
2> No. There a few (very few) things that don’t
Hi there -
Our facet counts are incorrect for a particular field and I suspect it is
because we changed the type of the field from StrField to TextField. Two
questions:
1. If we do re-index all the documents in the index, would these counts get
fixed?
2. Is there a "safe" way of changing field typ
