Thanks for your email Dave, I've thought about this overnight, and I've got a few questions please.
> When you open an IndexReader on the index it is opened up on > that particular version (or state) of the index Would you elaborate on how Ferret manages versions please. For example, can I have two readers open, one which accesses the old version of the index, and the second which accesses the latest version? > So to keep searches up to date you need to close and reopen > your IndexReader every time you commit changes to the index. I guess by reopen you mean IndexReader.new ? I proceeded to replace my Index usage with an IndexReader and Searcher which are closed and recreated after each IndexWriter pass, and the result seems to be that searches are still serialised - ie, a long running query on thread t1 "blocks" the normally very fast query on thread t1. Might I be seeing another point of synchonisation, or am I just observing a characteristic of ruby threads ? Kind Regards, Neville _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
