I'm actively working on LUCENE-1458, to enable differenct codecs for reading/writing the terms dict and doc/freq/prox/payload postings. I'm working now towards getting PforDelta working...
However, that change doesn't [yet] do anything for norms, stored fields nor term vectors. Can you describe more details about what kinds of customization you're looking to do? Mike On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM, John Wang <john.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys: > > I am trying to figure how to add the ability to create custom segment > files. Hopefully it is possible to create a plugin framework where one can > provide some sort of callback to add to a segment given a doc and provide > some sort of merge logic. This is in light of the flexible indexing effort. > > After digging thru the latest trunk code in that area, I see a > Writer/WriterPerThread pattern for different types of segment files, e.g. > Stored data, norms, inverted doc, etc. > > Do you think it is a good idea to consolidate them? Are there > intricacies where there are cross dependency between different types of > writers? > > Merge logic seems to be in the SegmentMerger class. Seems to do this, > it would be good to separate it out to per writer type. > > I am still trying to understand the code, any help is greatly > appreciated. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks > > -John > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
