yes, with lucene's current API's, it does not seem possible. But, as this is a problem that many might be facing, I was hoping someone might have figured out a solution.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Mango <bgh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to add new field without > re-indexing. > > As for extracting content from the field, it should be possible to > retrieve data if the term vectors > were stored with positions offset > (Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS). If not, I don't > think it's possible. > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Naveen Kumar <id.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I need to add a new field (a stored , not indexed field) for all > documents > > present in an existing large index. Reindexing the whole index will be > very > > costly. Is there a way to do this or any work around? > > > > I would also like to know, if data or term vector, of a field indexed > > without storing, can somehow be retrieved. This would enable a work > around > > solution to my problem. > > > > Thank you > > Naveen Kumar > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
