I haven't read all messages in this thread yet, but I probably have an answer to some questions...
1. You want to change schema.xml and to reindex, but you don't have access to source documents (stored somewhere on Internet). But you probably use stored="true" in your schema. Then, use SOLR as your storage device, use id:[* TO *] to retrieve documents from SOLR and reindex it in another SOLR schema... 2. If you don't use stored="true" you can still get access to term vectors, which you can probably reuse to create fake field with same term vector in an updated document... just an idea, may be I am wrong... -----Original Message----- From: Paul Rosen [mailto:p...@performantsoftware.com] Sent: August-27-09 1:22 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Updating a solr record I realize there is no way to update particular fields in a solr record. I know the recommendation is to delete the record from the index and re-add it, but in my case, it is difficult to completely reindex, so that creates problems with my work flow. That is, the info that I use to create a solr doc comes from two places: a local file that contains most of the info, and a URL in that file that points to a web page that contains the rest of the info. To completely reindex, we have to hit every website again, which is problematic for a number of reasons. (Plus, those websites don't change much, so it is just wasted effort.) (Once in a while we do reindex, and it is a huge production to do so.) But that means that if I want to make a small change to either schema.xml or the local files that I'm indexing, I can't. I can't even fix minor bugs until our yearly reindexing. So, the question is: Is there any way to get the info that is already in the solr index for a document, so that I can use that as a starting place? I would just tweak that record and add it again. Thanks, Paul
