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Introduction
The browse indexes for DSpace can be extensively configured. The configuration allows you to take control of the indexes you wish to browse, and how you wish to present the results.
PLEASE NOTE:
- With DSpace versions =>3.X, the browse indexes can be configured to be delivered via the SOLR service, if so desired.
- The browse indexes were previously only delivered via the PostgreSQL/Oracle database service.
For DSpace 5.X
For DSpace 4.X
For DSpace 3.X
WARNING:
Browse by Title Bug
After an upgrade (4.2 to 5.2) the following system bug appeared.
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2602
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/944
- https://github.com/aschweer/DSpace/commit/2575d73b2d5f2dd00f80c7903c0b8dbf788e4d9e
Old Index Purge for DSpace =>5.X
If during your upgrade to DSpace =>3.X, you decide to use the SOLR service to deliver indexes, then you need to purge the old PostgreSQL/Oracle database indexes.
A new command has been introduced with DSpace =>5.X. See below for an example.
$HOME/bin/dspace index-db-browse -f -d
See step 11 of: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Upgrading+DSpace
Old Index Purge for DSpace <=4.X
Check that you have a backup of the database before doing any purging. You have been warned.
Step 1 - Remove "communities2item" table
Login into the server as the dspace user and then type the following;
sudo -i
su - postgres
psql dspace
DELETE from communities2item;
\q
exit
exit
exit
Step 2 - Remove all "bi_" tables
I used pgadmin to do a "cascade drop" of all the bi_* tables, where bi = browse index.
Bug Reports
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2578
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2188
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2145
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1920
- https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1619
References
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-BrowseIndexConfiguration
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-BrowseIndexConfiguration
- http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3X/Configuration#Configuration-BrowseIndexConfiguration