I was looking at the Lucene API for IndexCommit and noticed that the JavaDoc states that
*'Decision that a commit-point should be deleted is taken by the IndexDeletionPolicy<http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexDeletionPolicy.html> in effect and therefore this should only be called by its onInit()<http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexDeletionPolicy.html#onInit(java.util.List)> or onCommit()<http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexDeletionPolicy.html#onCommit(java.util.List)> methods.'* ( http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexCommit.html#delete() ) I was wondering why this is the case and whether deleting IndexCommits outside of a IndexDeletionPolicy is actually a bad idea? To put some context around this I am looking to implement a deletion policy which is independant of the IndexWriter commit and more dependant on Processes using particular Commit points being finished with it. The logic would look something like the following and state would be stored in something like ZooKeeper so I can have use of ephremal nodes and watcher events: - IndexWriters would have a NoDeletionPolicy set - Each time a process opens a session it registers an ephremal node - The session is assigned the current (latest) commit point - Each time a process removes the node (either through crashing or having finished the job) a watch event is fired where a separate process will delete the commit point the process was using if no other processes are using the commit point and if it is not the latest commit point Processes may have fairly long running sessions so across all the processes a reasonable number of commit points might be in use. I don't really want to have to wait for a commit from the IndexWriter (which may not happen for a while) to clear up the older commit points I no longer need. Would this logic pose any issues given that it is going to be deleting Commit points outside of the IndexDeletionPolicy
