actually, i had limitation that i could not add "copyField" on Master Index. That master index is provided by 3rd party vendor & he is not willing to make changes in that.
I need to add field in my own way so want to copy a new field while replication On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Pawan Darira <pawan.dar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I would like to know whether i can add new fields while replicating index > > on > > Slave. E.g. My Master has index with field "F1" which is created with > type > > "string". Now, i don't want "F1" as a type "string" & also have > limitation > > that i cannot change the field type at schema level. > > > > Now, if i replicate that index on Slave, can i use "<copyField>" > attribute > > to create a copy of field "F1" into field "F2". "F2" will be my field > with > > type "text" which i can use as per my requirement > > > > No, it will not work. Solr replication works by copying pre-built indexes > (or portions of it) from the master to the slaves. Therefore, adding a copy > field on the slave will not actually change the index. > > Why not add the copy field on the master and the slaves? > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >
