Hi, Adding and deleting fields is not something you do regularly in production, so I assume you are in development phase, in which case I'd suggest just reindexing. I'm not sure if you get an error or not if you, say, request fl=MyOldFieldName and the query returns documents without that field.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: François Schiettecatte <fschietteca...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 9:14:06 AM > Subject: Re: change in field_type > > Hello > > What about adding or deleting fields? I have been reindexing after doing > that >but is it needed? > > François > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > When you change types you typically want to reindex everything. > > > > Otis > > ---- > > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Isha Garg <isha.g...@orkash.com> > >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 12:21:10 AM > >> Subject: change in field_type > >> > >> Hii, > >> > >> I want to confirm that if a change the type of a field from "sting" > >> >to > > >> "text" in schema.xml then whether i have rebuild the index or will it >works > > >> fine with previous index. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
