When you open an IndexReader, Lucene effectively takes a "snapshot" of the index and searches it until you reopen your reader. So the timing of when the merged index gets used is up to you, so you should be fine.
Best Erick On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, <ikoelli...@axsone.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any point during a merge operation where the index cannot be > searched or is unstable? We want to create a bunch of smaller indexes in > parallel and then merge them into a single index that may have searches > running against it. > > > > Thanks, > > Ian Koelliker > >
