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David Smiley commented on LUCENE-7453:
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bq. To me the difference between docnum and docid is really that docnum is one
letter longer Seriously, it doesn't seem to be explaining anything more than
docid does. It would be more self-explanatory to call it docSegmentIndex, but
this seems verbose.
I feel the same way -- there is no semantic difference.
> Change naming of variables/apis from docid to docnum
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> Key: LUCENE-7453
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7453
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ryan Ernst
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> In SOLR-9528 a suggestion was made to change {{docid}} to {{docnum}}. The
> reasoning for this is most notably that {{docid}} has a connotation about a
> persistent unique identifier (eg like {{_id}} in elasticsearch or {{id}} in
> solr), while {{docid}} in lucene is currently some local to a segment, and
> not comparable directly across segments.
> When I first started working on Lucene, I had this same confusion. {{docnum}}
> is a much better name for this transient, segment local identifier for a doc.
> Regardless of what solr wants to do in their api (eg keeping _docid_), I
> think we should switch the lucene apis and variable names to use docnum.
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