Thanks for the response. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-10314
Will we still be able to decide, maybe years down the line, that we do want
to search on fieldX after all, and be able to change the code and reindex
the maybe small proportion of documents that have a value for fieldX
wit
Strictly speaking, we could have opened an older index using Lucene 8
(say one that was created using Lucene 7, or 6) that would no longer
be valid in Lucene 9, at least according to the policy? I agree we
should try to fix this, just want to clarify the policy
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:54 AM Adri
This looks related to the new changes around schema validation. Lucene
now requires a field to either be absent from a document or be indexed
with the exact same options (index options, points dimensions, norms,
doc values type, etc.) as already indexed documents that also have
this field.
However