One more question - what does optimization do? Maybe to be a little more precise - what happens to the index that requires optimizaion (what is the problem and how does optimization solve it).
Aaron Chmelik Web Designer & Programmer email: aaron.chme...@gmail.com website: http://webdesign.aaronchmelik.com phone: 651.757.5979 On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Aaron Chmelik <aaron.chme...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks! coming from Sphinx, with seperate delta index files. Thanks for the > info! > > Aaron Chmelik > Web Designer & Programmer > email: aaron.chme...@gmail.com > website: http://webdesign.aaronchmelik.com > phone: 651.757.5979 > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io > > wrote: > >> Define reindexing. Every new document is indexed and existing documents >> are >> deleted and indexed as if it is a new document. Completely reindexing from >> scratch is only required if breaking changes are made to the schema or if >> you >> upgrade to a new version that uses another format and isn't able to >> convert. >> >> To my knowledge and experience, it is perfectly sane to never do a >> complete >> reindex and still accept incremental updates. Just do an optimize once in >> a >> while and you're good to go. >> >> > I've been trying to find a concise explanation of this, and seem to so >> far >> > have missed it. (Google, etc). What is the purpose/need to reindex a >> solr >> > index? How do you determine what provides the best performance? What >> > detrimental affects occur if you operate off of delta indexes? >> > >> > Aaron Chmelik >> > Web Designer & Programmer >> > email: aaron.chme...@gmail.com >> > website: http://webdesign.aaronchmelik.com >> > phone: 651.757.5979 >> > >