Brian, Yes, you do need to reindex. We've used Hadoop with Solr to speed up indexing by orders of magnitude for some of our customers. Something to consider.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Brian Lamb <brian.l...@journalexperts.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 11:53:27 AM > Subject: Changing the schema > > If I change the field type in my schema, do I need to rebuild the entire > index? I'm at a point now where it takes over a day to do a full import due > to the sheer size of my application and I would prefer not having to reindex > just because I want to make a change somewhere. > > Thanks, > > Brian Lamb >
