Adding a document does not necessarily cause existing index files to be modified. 'not necessarily' because sometimes adding a document triggers segment merging. There is a recent (March 5th) article on http://onjava.com about Lucene that talks more about that.
Otis --- Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:54 AM -0800 3/19/03, you wrote: > > >If your data will be changing frequently and indices all of them > need > >to be in sync all the time then yes, probably, esp. if the changes > are > >frequent but small. > > Hmm... > > I think I need to rephrase my first question. Suppose I have a big > index. I add a document. What seems to me to happen is that the files > > are read into memory, manipulated, and then written back out to disk > as new files. What doesn't appear to be happening is modification of > the files in-place. Is that true? > > If so, I think that negatively impacts my ability to store the > indexes in the database... > > Avi > -- > Avi 'rlwimi' Drissman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Argh! This darn mail server is trunca > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
