CREATEALIAS is also used to move an alias. Michael Della Bitta
Applications Developer o: +1 646 532 3062 | c: +1 917 477 7906 appinions inc. “The Science of Influence Marketing” 18 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017 t: @appinions <https://twitter.com/Appinions> | g+: plus.google.com/appinions<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112002776285509593336/112002776285509593336/posts> w: appinions.com <http://www.appinions.com/> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been asked the same question. There are only DELETEALIAS and > CREATEALIAS actions available, so is there a way to achieve uninterrupted > switch of an alias from one index to another? Are we lacking a MOVEALIAS > command? > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > 27. sep. 2013 kl. 10:46 skrev Yago Riveiro <yago.rive...@gmail.com>: > > > I need delete the alias for the old collection before point it to the > new, right? > > > > -- > > Yago Riveiro > > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > > > > On Friday, September 27, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Imagine you have an index and you need to reindex your data into a new > >> index, but don't want to have to reconfigure or restart client apps > >> when you want to point them to the new index. This is where aliases > >> come in handy. If you created an alias for the first index and made > >> your apps hit that alias, then you can just repoint the same alias to > >> your new index and avoid having to touch client apps. > >> > >> No, I don't think you can write to multiple collections through a > single alias. > >> > >> Otis > >> -- > >> Solr & ElasticSearch Support -- http://sematext.com/ > >> Performance Monitoring -- http://sematext.com/spm > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, yriveiro <yago.rive...@gmail.com(mailto: > yago.rive...@gmail.com)> wrote: > >>> Today I was thinking about the ALIAS feature and the utility on Solr. > >>> > >>> Can anyone explain me with an example where this feature may be useful? > >>> > >>> It's possible have an ALIAS of multiples collections, if I do a write > to the > >>> alias, Is this write replied to all collections? > >>> > >>> /Yago > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> Best regards > >>> -- > >>> View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/ALIAS-feature-can-be-used-for-what-tp4092095.html > >>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com ( > http://Nabble.com). > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >