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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-4557:
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Without supporting this, you are forcing full reindexes in situations that
really should not require it.
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Right, i'm intentionally forcing a reindex, because you discarded this
information before (by specifying indexing these indexing options), you must
reindex with the new options.
There's no possible way you can convince me that lucene should support creation
of fake data.
> Indexed Offsets Can Be Lost During Merge
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>
> Key: LUCENE-4557
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4557
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 4.0
> Reporter: Tim Smith
> Attachments: OffsetsTest.java
>
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> Primary Use case:
> Start with pre-4.0 index (no indexed offsets available)
> Start indexing new documents with indexed offsets
> (IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS, previously was
> IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS)
> merge/optimize index
> newly indexed documents will now no longer have offsets available
> In general, it is impossible to ever change a field to have offsets indexed
> when starting with an existing index as a merge will cause offsets to be
> removed from the index.
> Desirable behavior would be for new documents to have offsets indexed
> properly, and old documents would have offset of "0, 0" for all positions
> after merging with a segment that contains offsets
> Current behavior can be very dangerous.
> for example:
> * Start indexing documents with indexed offsets
> * change config to not index offsets by accident
> * index 1 document
> * revert config back
> * offsets will start disappearing from documents as segments are merged
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