> > I think it would be useful if the release notes (both core & solr) made > some descriptive comment about what's different in the new Lucene46Codec - > not just that Lucene46FieldInfosFormat and Lucene46SegmentInfosFormat are > new, but why/how they are different/better then the previous version. > > Are they smaller on disk? faster to write? faster to read? what makes > them noteworthy? >
The new formats are required to support field-level updates. They do not improve performance in any way, only add the fieldInfosGen (SegmentInfo) and dvGen (FieldInfos). I clarified in the release notes that these are required to support the field-level updates. Do you think we should describe them more? Shai On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Chris Hostetter <[email protected]>wrote: > > : https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote46 > : > : Feel free to add / optimize. I'd appreciate if somebody from Solr Land > : could start the Solr Release notes, I am not on top of the changes > > I took a stab at it... > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote46 > > I think it would be useful if the release notes (both core & solr) made > some descriptive comment about what's different in the new Lucene46Codec - > not just that Lucene46FieldInfosFormat and Lucene46SegmentInfosFormat are > new, but why/how they are different/better then the previous version. > > Are they smaller on disk? faster to write? faster to read? what makes > them noteworthy? > > > -Hoss > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
