Should be easy to check with the analysis UI. Add a synonym and see if it is used.
I seem to remember some work on reloading synonyms on the fly without a core reload. These seem related... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5200 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5234 wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Nov 26, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > I know that changes to the schema require a reload. But do changes to files > referenced by a schema also require a reload? So if for instance I were to > change the contents of a synonym file, would I need to reload the core before > Solr would use the new file? Synonyms in this case are at query time, but > other files like protwords are used at index time. > > I *THINK* that a reload is required, but I can't be sure without checking the > code, and it would probably take me more than a couple of hours to unravel > the code enough to answer the question myself. > > It is not SolrCloud, so there's no ZK to worry about. > > Thanks, > Shawn >