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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-2386: --------------------------------------- I dont understand the whole issue, too. For me it is perfectly fine, if I open an IndexWriter with create=true, that the index is created empty first. This has the big advantage, that IndexReaders can open it and will not fail with not found. OK this can be done by a commit directly after creating, but for such code like "create indexwriter with create=true if not exist else append", this is more work to do. The question is also, what happens if you call IndexWriter.getReader() without the initial commit? Does this work with your patch? For me this patch is to heavy for the small improvement, and its a behaviour change and no real bug. > IndexWriter commits unnecessarily on fresh Directory > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2386 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2386 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Index > Reporter: Shai Erera > Assignee: Shai Erera > Fix For: 3.1 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2386.patch, LUCENE-2386.patch, LUCENE-2386.patch, > LUCENE-2386.patch > > > I've noticed IndexWriter's ctor commits a first commit (empty one) if a fresh > Directory is passed, w/ OpenMode.CREATE or CREATE_OR_APPEND. This seems > unnecessarily, and kind of brings back an autoCommit mode, in a strange way > ... why do we need that commit? Do we really expect people to open an > IndexReader on an empty Directory which they just passed to an IW w/ > create=true? If they want, they can simply call commit() right away on the IW > they created. > I ran into this when writing a test which committed N times, then compared > the number of commits (via IndexReader.listCommits) and was surprised to see > N+1 commits. > Tried to change doCommit to false in IW ctor, but it got IndexFileDeleter > jumping on me .. so the change might not be that simple. But I think it's > manageable, so I'll try to attack it (and IFD specifically !) back :). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org