That really is the only way, it would be far easier if you were importing from another source. Are you using solr as a data store?
It is not possible via solr to change existing documents in a solr index. It would be a nice feature though. ~Tim. 2009/7/31 Vannia Rajan <kvanniara...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > We are using solr-server for a large data-set. We need some changes in > solr schema.xml (datatype change from integer to sint for few fields). It > turns out that the two datatypes (integer and sint) are incompatible and > hence we need to re-index SOLR. > > My question is: > Is there any way by which i can just re-create the index files for > existing data/documents in solr? (without having to re-post the documents) > > I searched through many forums and everything seems to say : "I have to > re-post ALL documents to solr for re-indexing". Please suggest me a better > alternative to achieve my schema-change (I have very large solr-index - > sized around 10GB and it will be tough to query the whole data-set, store it > somewhere as XMLs and then to repost) > > -- > Thanks, > Vanniarajan >
