: I figure it out.. thanks for pointing me in the right direction... so at the : end solr field type text was changed for text_general
they key take away here seems to be that when you upgraded from Solr 3.3 to Solr 3.4 you stoped using your old schema (which you copied from the 3.3 example), and started using the example schema from 3.4 -- which was different. This is not a good idea in general -- if you build an index with a specific set of configs, you should *not* change those configs just because you upgrade solr -- quite hte opposite, you should absolutely continue using your old configs when you upgrade the Solr application. There may be new recomendations in the new example configs that you want to read/consider, and by all means if you are building a *new* index consider using the new example configs as your starting point -- but under no circumstances should you blindly replace your existing (working) config files with the example from a new version of Solr just because you upgrade. -Hoss
