On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tim Bogaert <boggu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> while removing the prepareCommit we noticed we didn't actually called the
> IW.commit() method before the IW.close().
> Altough the documentation says the close() method commits all the changes
> we tried to add the commit() method before the IW.close() and this seems to
> fix our problem.

OK, thanks for bringing closure.

> Is this a bug or just a misunderstanding of the documentation and you
> always have to call the commit() method first?

You're actually always supposed to call commit() (or, rollback())
after prepareCommit.

But it's a nasty trap that close() silently drops changes.

I've opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3872 to fix
that trap...

Thanks for raising this!

Mike

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