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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-3454:
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It's at least an order of magnitude more painful to change common external
interfaces in Solr than in Lucene (or any other type-safe library). "optimize"
has been with us a very long time, and it should stay. It should be both
simple and effective enough to clarify the documentation if needed. Changing
the name would cause far more collective confusion and pain than the very small
percent of people who might not understand when it's appropriate to call (and
changing the name won't help them understand when it is appropriate!).
On a side note: optimize still does just that - an index with fewer segments
and deleted documents is still more efficient to search. We just need to make
sure to document the downsides as well.
> rename optimize to a less cool-sounding name
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> Key: LUCENE-3454
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3454
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.4, 4.0
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Attachments: LUCENE-3454.patch
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> I think users see the name optimize and feel they must do this, because who
> wants a suboptimal system? but this probably just results in wasted time and
> resources.
> maybe rename to collapseSegments or something?
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