On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Rats. I was wondering how the Lucene3x codec worked, but now I know. I was hoping codecs were going to be more flexible than that, but it looks like nobody considered the possibility that I might want to pass a Codec into my IndexReader. :( TX --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org