Re: Creating a new index from an existing index

2006-08-30 Thread Xiaocheng Luan
Thanks Erick, it looks like we'll have to recreate from the sources ... Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This just in from the thread "*Re-created fields consistently indexed" *Erik Hatcher replied as below, and believe me, Erik knows waay more about this than I do . On Aug 30

Re: Creating a new index from an existing index

2006-08-30 Thread Erick Erickson
This just in from the thread "*Re-created fields consistently indexed" *Erik Hatcher replied as below, and believe me, Erik knows waay more about this than I do . On Aug 30, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Jason Polites wrote: I understand that it is possible to "re-create" fields which are indexed

Re: Creating a new index from an existing index

2006-08-30 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, assuming you can get all the information you need out of your index, you really only have two choices that I see. 1> iterate through your documents and delete and re-add each document to that same index. 2> iterate through your documents and add the doc to a *new* index, then replace your ol

Re: Creating a new index from an existing index

2006-08-29 Thread Xiaocheng Luan
Thanks, Erick. I agree that it might be unlikely to reconstruct from an existing index, but I think document boosting (that is, one document has a higher boost factor than other documents) as well as field boosting is specified during indexing. Our use case is performancce/results tuning. We hav

Re: Creating a new index from an existing index

2006-08-29 Thread Erick Erickson
A couple of things.. 1> I don't think you set the boost when indexing. You set the boost when querying, so you don't need to re-index for boosting. 2> A recurring theme is that you can't do an update-in-place for a lucene document. You might search the mail archive for a discussion of this. The