Using Lucene for technical documentation

2020-11-22 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hello, I'd better begin by identifying myself as a newbie. I am investigating using Lucene as a search tool for a library of technical documents, much of which consists of pieces of source code and discussion of the content. The standard analyzer does an adequate job with normal text but st

Re: Lucene Migration Query

2020-11-22 Thread Erick Erickson
If you created your index with 7x, you don’t need to do anything, 8x will be able to operate with it. If you ever used 6x to index any docs you must reindex completely by deleting the entire index and starting over, or index to a new collection and use collection aliasing to seamlessly switch.

Lucene Migration Query

2020-11-22 Thread Adarsh Sunilkumar
Hi Team, Currently I am using Lucene 7.3, I want to upgrade to lucene 8.5.1. Should I do reindexing in this case ? Can I make use of backward codec jar without a reindex? Thanks & Regards, Adarsh Sunilkumar.