On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nicholas Knize <[email protected]> wrote: > Had to make a minor change in ES to support this refactor (no biggie). > Having fresh eyes and curiosity I thought I'd ask what the reason is behind > this variable name, 'maxDoc', if deletes are not taken into consideration? > Its a bit of a confusing variable and method name.
You are right: maxDoc is really quite a ridiculous (yet, historical, legacy, been in Lucene forever) name. Lucene historically has used "numDocs" to be number of live docs in the index, and "maxDoc" to be number of live + deleted (but not yet merged away) docs. I'm personally API blind to both these names :) Maybe we should fix it? Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
