Resolving Doubts on File Import and Collection Update in Typesense
TLDR Ariosvaldo asked about import behavior and collection updates in Typesense. Dima clarified import strategies and explained adding optional and non-optional fields to collections.
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Aug 22, 2023 (3 months ago)
Ariosvaldo
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Ariosvaldo
03:19 PMDima
03:22 PMoptional field to the collection, so documents won’t require to have it. Or you can add new field to all documents and then add non-optional field to the collection.Typesense allows documents to have fields even if they are not in the collection schema, they will be stored on disk and returned when requested, but not indexed until you add them to the collection.
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