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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:35 +0100
From: Andrzej Bialecki <ab@getopt.org>
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Subject: Re: Updating Lucene Index with Unstored fields
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philipc wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'm trying to add a new field to all the documents in a lucene index.
> After searching around, I found the only way to do an update 
> is by retrieve the old documents, update it, delete it, then re-add
> to index.
> 
> However, this worked for only preserving the stored fields.
> i've lost all the unstored fields from the documents.
> is there anyway to keep the unstored fields as well?
> 
> Or any way to go around the problem, 
> ie, anyway to export the entire index to a csv file
> and then update the cvs, and then import it back?

Here's an idea: create an index consisting of documents with just this 
field, adding documents in exactly the same order as they are in the 
other index. Then use ParallelReader to access both indexes at the same 
time - ParallelReader will present a merged view of both indexes. You 
can also use IndexWriter.addIndexes() to create a merged index.


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