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I don't believe this is possible in tantivy, can tantivy update it's schema?

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In such a case, i it at least possible to delete an entire index? I need this programmatically instead of deleting it from the file system.

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So recently a quickwit-oss/tantivy#1211 introduced non-strict schemas which means unknown fields don't error, but that doesn't re-index the index or change the schema, yea, I'd imagine you would have to delete and recreate the index at this point.

The reason there was no delete endpoint yet was deleting a non-empty directory on windows (and I don't know if this is still the case) was inconsistent so we could get confused if windows for whatever reason decided not to delete the directory. Adding a delete endpoint wouldn't be very difficult it would just be inconsistent, what are you running on?

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I see. The scenario I am having is that I need to create indices for given schema. This works fine until I need to update the schema. There is no update, so I thought of deleting and re-adding, but then realized that also deleting indices is not supported.

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