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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-3454:
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bq. e.g.: why does an incremental DIH update trigger this by default?
Not sure... If they actually meant for this to happen, this just reinforces my
point that the name of the call is not the issue. The guys who wrote DIH
absolutely know what optimize does - hence if it was renamed they would have
simply called maybeMerge(1) or whatever today.
At the time it was written, and depending on what it was used for, maybe it did
make sense.
bq. You can keep lying to yourself that the only problem is complete morons,
i'm not buying it.
That's exactly it - it's not morons, so a simple name change won't really help.
We need to document the *current* tradeoffs so people can make more informed
decisions about when to optimize. And some people will *still* chose to
maybeMerge(1) when others think maybe they shouldn't. That's OK.
> 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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