Thanks for the JIRA link Robert, I've added a comment to it just to share the real world aspect of what happened to us for background.
On 1 April 2014 18:29, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Robert for the reply, all of that sounds fairly hairy. I did try > a > > full optimize of the shard index using Luke, but the residual > über-segment > > still has the filed definitions in it. Are saying in (1) that the > creating > > of a new Shard index through a custom call to IndexWriter.addIndexes(..) > > would produce a _fully_ optimized index without the fields, and that is > > different than what an Optimize operation through ES would call? More a > > technical question now on what the differences is between the Optimize > call > > and a manual create-new-index-from-multiple-readers. (I actually though > > that's what the Optimize does in practical terms, but there's obviously > more > > or less going on under the hood under these different code paths). > > > > We're going the reindex route for now, was just hoping there was some > > special trick we could do a little easier than the above. :) > > > > Optimize and normal merging don't "garbage collect" unused fields from > fieldinfos: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1761 > > The addindexes trick is also a forced merge, but it decorates the > readers-to-be-merged: lying > and hiding the fields as if they don't exist. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAMUKNZW2-FEjA6CChSR3%2Br0GQYAfJ9ZOOhyU565V79QMTrPFWQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAHfYWB5dHJ70cxzZuZ21gdeQwN1ckZ40Yu4K%2BmJYexK-i01AVQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
