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Shawn Heisey commented on LUCENE-5940:
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bq. i also get the feeling a lot of the lucene devs in general don't think
"full reindexing" is an issue and can just be done at any point with minimal
cost (just a vibe i've picked up).
You're definitely not wrong here. When first getting an index into production
(often daily or even more frequently), and later when the application needs
change, the user must make changes to the code (Lucene) or schema (Solr,
elasticsearch, or other product) that are incompatible with the existing index.
When a user obtains help from a mailing list or other support resource, such a
change is VERY likely.
Reindexing is part and parcel of search. Users who are unable to efficiently
perform a reindex will usually find themselves without the search capabilities
that they really need, because they made incorrect early assumptions that can't
be fixed without reindexing. This can be the case even if they go years
without upgrading their Lucene libraries. If the actual source data is
difficult to obtain, it's strongly recommended that it be gathered into an
intermediate store with excellent retrieval characteristics, such as a database.
> change index backwards compatibility policy.
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> Key: LUCENE-5940
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5940
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
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> Currently, our index backwards compatibility is unmanageable. The length of
> time in which we must support old indexes is simply too long.
> The index back compat works like this: everyone wants it, but there are
> frequently bugs, and when push comes to shove, its not a very sexy thing to
> work on/fix, so its hard to get any help.
> Currently our back compat "promise" is just a broken promise, because we
> cannot actually guarantee it for these reasons.
> I propose we scale back the length of time for which we must support old
> indexes.
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