Re: Index compatibility between Solr releases.

2013-05-09 Thread Erick Erickson
Solr strives to keep backwards-compatible 1 major revision, so 4.x should be able to work with 3.x indexes. One caution though, well actually two. 1> If you have a master/slave setup, upgrade the _slaves_ first. If you upgrade a master fist and it merges segments, then the slaves won't be able to

Re: Index compatibility between Solr releases.

2013-05-07 Thread Skand S Gupta
Thank you Shawn. This was detailed and very helpful. Skand. On May 7, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > On 5/7/2013 3:11 PM, Skand Gupta wrote: >> We have a fairly large (in the order of 10s of TB) indices built using Solr >> 3.5. We are considering migrating to Solr 4.3 and was wonderin

Re: Index compatibility between Solr releases.

2013-05-07 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 5/7/2013 3:11 PM, Skand Gupta wrote: We have a fairly large (in the order of 10s of TB) indices built using Solr 3.5. We are considering migrating to Solr 4.3 and was wondering what the policy is on maintaining backward compatibility of the indices? Will 4.3 work with my 3.5 indexes? Because o