If I remember correctly the newly added fields shouldn’t be “required=true” right? Haven’t checked it myself though
— > On Aug 15, 2025, at 7:13, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > > : new fields to our schema and not immediately re-index documents. So early > : on only new docs will be populated with the new fields. > : > : Any concerns with this approach? In some documentation I seen direction > : that a re-index must happen on any schema change. > > As a good rule of thumb, and schema *change* should be handled by > re-indexing, but you are correct that in most cases *adding* new fields > (and then gradually populating them overtime) is generally fine > > > -Hoss > http://www.lucidworks.com/
