Alessandro Benedetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> So basically using your tool you build a copy of the index ( similar to
> what optimize does) without affecting the main index right ?

Yes. Your step-by-step is spot on.

In the end we re-indexed everything, because there were other issues with the 
index we wanted to fix, so DVEnabler is very much a limited implementation. I 
am sure that the conversion code can be made a lot faster. 

I could envision a better tool that just used a source index and a destination 
schema and did the conversion with no setup-fuss. One could also add other 
usable conversions besides DV-switching: Multi-value-fields with always 1 
value/doc could be changed to true single-value, and vice-versa. String fields 
with numerics could be converted to true numerics. etc. Most of the data is 
already in the index, so it is "just" a question of re-packing it.

> This is actually a useful tool when re-indexing could be extremely long.

Thank you.


Important note: I stated that I created that tool, which I apologize for. 
Thomas Egense and I wrote it jointly.

- Toke Eskildsen

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