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David Smiley commented on LUCENE-7453:
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+1 to docIndex -- nice name.
Presumably we'd change both master & 6x so as to minimize backporting pain
backporting of other issues? Also... I wonder if some issues like this one are
best delayed until when the next major release nears. Again, to ease
feature/bug back-porting.
> 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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