upgrading Lucene indexes, take II

2020-09-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Rats, fat fingers and the stupid large touchpad on MBPs, which I dislike intensely. Anyway: I was once again explaining that if you upgrade X->X+1->X+2 you need to reindex from scratch sometime at least with X+1 before upgrading to X+2, even if you re-index all documents with X+1 into the exist

Upgrading Lucene indexes

2020-09-16 Thread Erick Erickson
I was once again explaining that if you upgrade X->X+1->X+2 you need to reindex from scratch sometime at least with X+1, even if you re-index all documents when it occurred to me to wonder whether a new merge policy could make that process easier. So ---