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Issue with In-Place Schema Changes and Querying New Field

TLDR Ricardo faced issues querying a new field after in-place schema change. The problem was due to an older Python client, which was resolved by updating it.

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Ricardo

03:20 AM

Hi all,
Since version 0.23

Schema changes: we now support fields to be added or dropped from a collection schema in-place.

We're trying to add a new field, and query by it. But it seems that we are not able to query by it. We can add it though, but then can't use it in a query. Is there any limitation on in-place changes?

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Jason

03:25 AM

Could you confirm that you’re adding a field to the schema first before querying for it: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/collections.html#update-or-alter-a-collection

Ricardo

04:15 AM

yeah, looks like it might be our python typesense client

05:12

Ricardo

05:12 AM

yeah we were using an older python library which didn't support the newer versions

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