On Aug 26, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Jon Drukman wrote:
Is there a way to add a field to an existing index without stopping the server, deleting the index, and reloading every document from scratch?
You can add a field to the schema at any time without adversely affecting the rest of the index. You have to restart the server, but you don't have to re-index existing documents. Of course, only new documents with that field specified will come back in queries.
You can also define dynamic fields like x_* which would let you add any field name you want without restarting the server.
