It's not a problem, but it's best to share the underlying reader. You could open your short-lived searcher by getting a reader via getIndexReader() on your long-lived searcher....
What's the underlying use-case you're trying to make happen? Best Erick On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > > Hello list, > > is it a good or bad thing to open to index-searchers on FSDirectories of > the same path? > > (namely, one short-lived, one long-lived). > > thanks in advance > > paul > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >