Very likely I'm late to this party :) not sure with solr standalone, but with solrcloud (7.3.1) you have to reload the core every time synonyms referenced by a schema are changed.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:51 PM Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > Should be easy to check with the analysis UI. Add a synonym and see if it > is used. > > I seem to remember some work on reloading synonyms on the fly without a > core reload. These seem related... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5200 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5234 > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > On Nov 26, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > > > I know that changes to the schema require a reload. But do changes to > files referenced by a schema also require a reload? So if for instance I > were to change the contents of a synonym file, would I need to reload the > core before Solr would use the new file? Synonyms in this case are at > query time, but other files like protwords are used at index time. > > > > I *THINK* that a reload is required, but I can't be sure without > checking the code, and it would probably take me more than a couple of > hours to unravel the code enough to answer the question myself. > > > > It is not SolrCloud, so there's no ZK to worry about. > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > > > -- Vincenzo D'Amore