Thanks for the pointer!
> How about hooking in Andrzej's pruning tool at the postCommit event, > literally removing unused fields. I believe a "commit" is fired on the > slave by itself after every successful replication, to put the index live. > You could execute a script which prunes away the dead meat and then call a > new commit? > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrConfigXml#A.22Update.22_Related_Event_Liste > ners > http://www.lucidimagination.com/solutions/webinars/mastering-the-lucene-in > dex > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > On 5. nov. 2010, at 16.11, Markus Jelsma wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got an ordinary master/slave replication set up. The master contains > > several fields that are not used by the slaves but are used by processes > > that interact with the master. Removing the fields from the master is > > not an option. > > > > Well, to save disk space i'd figure i create an `ignored` fieldType and > > set the fields that are unused on the slaves to use the ignored > > fieldType. > > > > ..it doesn't work and makes perfectly sense because it's just the index > > files that get copied over. > > > > The question, how to ignore fields with replication? > > > > Cheers,