On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: >> >> The problems you described in the spellchecker are noted in >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-622 -- I shall create an issue >> to >> synchronize spellcheck.build so that the index is not corrupted. > > I'd like to discuss this a little... > > I'm not sure that I want to rebuild the spelling index each time the > underlying data index changes - the process takes very long and my updates > are frequent changes to non-spelling related data. > > what I'd really like is for a change to my index to not cause an exception. > IIRC the "old" way of using a spellchecker didn't work like this at all - I > could completely rm data/index and leave data/spell in place, add new data, > not issue cmd=build and the spelling parts still worked just fine (albeit > with old data). > > not to say that SOLR-622 isn't a good idea (it is) but I don't really think > the entire solution is keeping the spellcheck index in sync. do they need > to be kept in sync for things not to implode on me?
Agree... spell check indexes should not have to be in sync, and anything to keep them in sync automatically should be optional (and probably disabled by default). -Yonik
