Re: Re[4]: Starting an index...

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I guess I'm weary of a mismatch between an index and the schema, and : can't say that I recommend that at this point without seeing where it : may have issues. modifying a schema without rebuilding the index from scratch is in fact "deep voodoo" -- some things work okay; some things break horri

Re: Re[4]: Starting an index...

2007-02-22 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: On 2/22/07 1:37 PM, "Jack L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wonder what happens if I change the schema after some documents have been inserted? Is this allowed at all? Will the index become corrupted if I add/remove some fields? Or change the

Re: Re[4]: Starting an index...

2007-02-22 Thread Walter Underwood
On 2/22/07 1:37 PM, "Jack L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder what happens if I change the schema after some documents > have been inserted? Is this allowed at all? Will the index become > corrupted if I add/remove some fields? Or change the field properties? The schema just controls the inp

Re[4]: Starting an index...

2007-02-22 Thread Jack L
Hello Erik, > Wouldn't even matter if there were field name "conflicts". A field > by any other name is just a field. All document types could have a > "title" field, for example. That makes sense. I wonder what happens if I change the schema after some documents have been inserted? Is this al

Re: Re[2]: Starting an index...

2007-02-21 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Jack L wrote: Thanks Chris and Eric for the replies. Very helpful. no, each instance manages a single schema and a single data index -- but thta schema can allow for various differnt types of documents that don't need to have anything in common. Does this me

Re[2]: Starting an index...

2007-02-21 Thread Jack L
Thanks Chris and Eric for the replies. Very helpful. > no, each instance manages a single schema and a single data index -- but > thta schema can allow for various differnt types of documents that don't > need to have anything in common. Does this mean that as long as I have the schema for all do

Re: Starting an index...

2007-02-21 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Jack L wrote: 2. For each index, do I need to copy this directory and start a solr instance? Is it possible to run one solr instance for multiple indices? Further on this than Hoss mentioned... you can share a common configuration among multiple Solr instances wi

Re: Starting an index...

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Hostetter
: 1. I suppose I can start from copying the whole example : directory and name it myindex. I understand that I need : to modify the solr/conf/schema.xml to suit my data. Besides : that, is there anything else that I must/should change? : I'll take a look at the stopwords.txt, etc. to see if any :

Starting an index...

2007-02-21 Thread Jack L
I have played with the "example" directory for a while. Everything seems to work well. Now I'd like to start my own index and I have a few questions. 1. I suppose I can start from copying the whole example directory and name it myindex. I understand that I need to modify the solr/conf/schema.xml