The unexpected behavior no longer occurs after switching to the new Lucene 
release candidate.
-Lex


>From: "Armbrust, Daniel C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Lucene Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Merging (adding) indices
>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 07:51:55 -0500
>
>I have also had the indexes that I merged disappear when I was merging
>indexes.  It seems to happen nearly 100% of the time, when merging more 
>than
>2 indexes.  I just thought it was the normal behavior.  However, when I
>merge only 2 indexes, they usually don't get deleted.  I don't have any 
>code
>that deletes the indexes on mergeing.  Maybe I should look closer at some
>code if this isn't supposed to be happening?
>
>Dan
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 5:41 PM
>To: Lucene Users List
>Subject: Re: Merging (adding) indices
>
>
>The source code looks like this:
>
>   public final synchronized void addIndexes(Directory[] dirs)
>       throws IOException {
>     optimize();                                   // start with zero or
>1 seg
>     for (int i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
>       SegmentInfos sis = new SegmentInfos();      // read infos from
>dir
>       sis.read(dirs[i]);
>       for (int j = 0; j < sis.size(); j++) {
>         segmentInfos.addElement(sis.info(j));     // add each info
>       }
>     }
>     optimize();                                   // final cleanup
>   }
>
>So I think the original directories/indices should not be modified in
>any way.  Are you sure your application is not deleting them?
>
>Otis
>
>
>
>--- Lex Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello-
> > I am using org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addIndexes(Directory[]
> > dirs)
> > to merge several indices into one.  The resulting index appears to
> > work
> > fine, but afterward the original indices seem to have been completely
> >
> > emptied.
> >
> > I can deal with that, but I just wanted to check: Is this method
> > supposed to
> > alter the indices in the 'dirs' parameter?  It's not mentioned in the
> >
> > javadoc.
> >
> > Thanks- Lex
> >
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