Hi, does Milvus support querying directly by alias name instead of collection name? Thanks

[gjwei]

Because the business needs to update the entire vector library every ten minutes.

[yhmo]

Yes, alias can be used as a collection name.

Let's say there is a collection named "AAA"

1. create an alias for this collection
   milvus_client.create_alias("AAA", "abcd")

2. query by alias, the query is applied to "AAA"
   milvus_client.query("abcd")

3. create another collection "BBB"
   milvus_client.create_collection("BBB")

4. assign the alias to "BBB"
   milvus_client.alter_alias("BBB", "abcd")

5. query by alias, the query is applied to "BBB"
   milvus_client.query("abcd")

[gjwei]

Thanks a lot.