Hi, It is not possible to read 2.x indices from Lucene 4, even with a custom codec. For instance, Lucene 4 needs to hook into SegmentInfos.read to detect old 3.x indices and force the use of the Lucene3x codec since these indices don't expose what codec has been used to write them.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Trejkaz <trej...@trypticon.org> wrote: > Hi all. > > The inability to read people's existing indexes is essentially the > only thing stopping us upgrading to v4, so we're stuck indefinitely on > v3.6 until we find a way around this issue. > > As I understand it, Lucene 4 added the notion of codecs which can > precisely choose how to read and write the index content. > > So I wonder: > 1. Is it technically possible to write a codec to read the v2 format? > 2. If this is possible, has anyone already done it? > (Surely we're not the first ones to want to do it.) > > TX > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > -- Adrien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
