On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Michael McCandless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could instead keep these SegmentReaders open and reuse them for > applying deletes.
We discussed caching SegmentReaders in the original buffered deletes issue too http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-565 > Then the IndexWriter could present an IndexReader > (MultiReader) that reads these segments, plus the IndexReader reading > buffered docs in RAM. This would basically be a "combined > IndexWriter / IndexReader". And all the lucene developers of the world rejoiced :-) > I think the IndexReader that reads DocumentWriter's RAM buffer would > still search a point-in-time snapshot of the index, unlike > InstantiatedIndexReader, and require an explicit reopen() to refresh. Right. That provides the most implementation flexibility too (even w/o such issues as handling delete-by-query). -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
