: > We currently support requests to CREATEALIAS to collections that don’t
: > exist. Requests to this alias later result in 404s. If the target
: > collection is later created, requests to the alias will begin to work.
I’m
: > wondering if someone is relying on this behavior, or
I’d prefer it if the alias was required to be removed, or pointed elsewhere,
before the collection could be deleted.
As a best practice, I encourage all SolrCloud users to configure an alias to
each collection, and use only the alias in their clients. This allows atomic
switching between colle
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Anshum Gupta wrote:
>
> On a similar note, I think we should also be clearing out the aliases when
> we DELETE a collection.
This seems problematic since an alias can point to several collections. Maybe
the point is that the deleted collection should be removed f
I think that might have just been an oversight. We shouldn't allow creation
of an alias for non-existent collections.
On a similar note, I think we should also be clearing out the aliases when
we DELETE a collection.
-Anshum
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:57 PM Tomás Fernández Löbbe
wrote:
> We cur
