Hi Shawn - Thanks again for your help on IRC -- I took your suggestions and info, talked it over with my colleagues, and we decided that we'll rebuild our index -- all before I had finished composing my original email to the list.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 6:17 PM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 10/29/2019 4:05 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > > I can > > ask on our dev list to see what I can learn. > > I should add something important to this. Even if we can implement an > enhancement, it would only be added to an 8.x version at the earliest. > It is not possible to take an index from 4.2.1 and use it in Solr 8.x, > so you'd have to rebuild your index anyway even if you upgraded to get > the new feature. > > That makes complete sense. We're hopeful that we'll be able to move to a new version of Solr in the next year, but we don't have any expectations for moving the index over. > Thanks, > Shawn > Thank you! Best, Bridger
