2billion is a hard limit. Usually people split indexes into multiple index long before this, and use the parallel multi reader (I think) to read from all of the sub-indexes.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Zhang, Lisheng <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Now lucene uses integer as document id, so it means we cannot have more > than 2^31-1 documents within one collection? Even if we use MultiSearcher > the document id is still integer so it seems this is still a problem? > > We have been using lucene for some time and our document count is growing > rather rapidly, maybe this is a much-discussed issue already, but I did not > find the lead, any pointer would be really appreciated. > > Thanks very much for helps, Lisheng > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Lance Norskog [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
