[chef-dev] Re: CHEF-2346 solr maxfieldlength round 2

[Jesse Nelson < >]

I don't think you have to reindex after expanding this value.

I also think the big first thing to do is emit an error/warning when a
record exceeds this value instead of silently dropping it  (current
behavior).

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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 wrote:
> There was some earlier mailing list discussion on the topic [1] but we
> need another look at CHEF-2346 [2], because even if we increase the
> limit in the configuration file that we ship, the user still needs to
> install this configuration manually and, I believe, reindex. This is a
> lot to ask in a point release, but we'd also like to help people out,
> so we need a better solution.
>
> For starters, we should emit a warning on chef-solr startup if this
> value is less than say 50,000 (?) then recommend its increase and
> point to the ticket for further information.
>
> Is there a light-weight way to determine the size of objects currently
> in use? Could we error/fatal if an object is within a certain distance
> of the limit?
>
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> [1] http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef-dev/2011-08/msg00038.html
> [2] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346
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