Currently the docIDs are in fact logically appended, during
IndexWriter.addIndexes*.
This really is an implementation detail, though, so conceivably this
may change some day...
Mike
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Britske <gbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> say I have:
> - Indexreader[] readers = {reader1, reader2, reader3} //containing all
> different docs
> - I know the internal docids of documents in reader1, reader2, reader3
> seperately
>
> Does doing IndexWriter.addIndexesNoOptimize(Indexreader[] readers) on these
> readers give me a determinstic and calculable set of docids on the documents
> in the resulting documentWriter?
>
> i.e: from http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_1/fileformats.html:
> "The numbers stored in each segment are unique only within the segment, and
> must be converted before they can be used in a larger context. The standard
> technique is to allocate each segment a range of values, based on the range
> of numbers used in that segment. To convert a document number from a segment
> to an external value, the segment's base document number is added."
>
> Does assinging docids in addIndexesNoOptimize work like this?
> in other words:
> - docids of docs in reader1 stay the same in indexwriter
> - docids of docs in reader2 are incremented by reader1.docs.size();
> - docids of docs in reader3 are incremented by reader1.docs.size() +
> reader2.docs.size()
>
> Thanks,
> Geert-Jan
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