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0 pointskristiandupont3y ago0 comments

Thank you! Yes, I reindex. I store the file timestamp along with the contents, so it's not quite as involved as it could seem but startup does take a bit. And, I don't have a good way of discovering deleted files at the moment. Not a big deal as it is, but something I will look into.

And yes, query suggestions are exactly what I mean. Thank you for informing me, I guess I will have to look into how I can make it myself :-)

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dureuill3y ago· 1 in thread

You could maybe use something equivalent to the "index hot swap"[1] feature we have at the Meilisearch level at startup, so that you make the reindexing in a another index at startup, and then atomatically swap this fresh index with the old one when it is ready? That way, you have fast startup at the cost of having possibly out-of-date information for a while after startup.

(you could even reindex from scratch completely in the background at startup, so no need to discover deleted files at all)

[1]: https://blog.meilisearch.com/zero-downtime-index-deployment/

kristiandupontOP3y ago

That's a great idea, thank you!

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