: > If we change our config to stop storing them, when will they get removed : > from the index? After the next commit? After an optimize? Or will we have to : > rebuild the entire index from scratch?
changing a field to be stored=false doesn't *require* that you rebuild your index, but the space used by those stored fields won't be "cleaned up" or reclaimed in anyway ... if however you aren't in a rush to get that disk space back, and you update most of the documents in your index frequently, you could skip the rebuild step and just trust that it will get eliminated eventually as you delete or update docs over time. -Hoss
