On Oct 4, 2014 9:13 PM, "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the further clarification. In short, the legacy of 3.x support was destabilizing 4.x itself (including testing), not just interfering with 6.x moving forward beyond 3.x index compatibility. So, 5.x will have less baggage holding it down than 4.x has today. > > I still need answers to: > > 1. Will users of 5.0 get any immediate benefit by reindexing or otherwise "upgrading" their 4.x indexes to 5.0?
Yes, for all the reasons Robert already mentioned. > > 2. What is the easiest, most efficient way for users of 5.0 to upgrade their 4.x indexes to 5.0 so that they will not have to worry or do anything when 6.0 comes out? Again, users should always upgrade if possible. There are improvements for memory and speed all the time. Currently they can use the IndexUpgrader (offline) or wrap there merge policy with UpgradeIndexMergePolicy (although both currently act like an optimize on the old segments, im hoping to change that soon). Ryan > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Robert Muir > Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:43 PM > > To: dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: 5.0 release status? > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: >> >> I tried to follow all of the trunk 6/branch 5x discussion, but... AFAICT >> there was no explicit decision or even implication that a release 5.0 would >> be imminent or that there would not be a 4.11 release. AFAICT, the whole >> trunk 6/branch 5x decision was more related to wanting to have a trunk that >> eliminated the 4x deprecations and was no longer constrained by >> compatibility with the 4x index – let me know if I am wrong about that in >> any way! But I did see a comment on one Jira referring to “preparation for a >> 5.0 release”, so I wanted to inquire about intentions. So, is a 5.0 release >> “coming soon”, or are 4.11, 4.12, 4.13... equally likely? > > > I created a branch_5x because 3.x index support was responsible for > multiple recent corruption bugs, some of which starting impacting 4.x > indexes. > > Especially bad were: > LUCENE-5907: 3.x back compat code corrupts (not just can't read) your index. > LUCENE-5934: 3.x back compat code corrupts (not just can't read) your 4.0 index. > LUCENE-5975: 3.x back compat code reports a false corruption (was > indeed a bug in those versions of lucene) for 3.0-3.3 indexes. > > Whenever I see patterns in corruptions then I see it as a systemic > problem and aggressively work to do something about it. I've seen > several lately, but these are the relevant ones: > > 3.x back compat: 3.x didn't have a codec API, so its wedged in, and > pretty hard. Its not that we were lazy, its that its radically > different: doesn't separate data by fields, sorts terms differently, > uses shared docstores, writes field numbers implicitly, ... We try to > emulate it the best we can for testing, but the emulation can't really > be perfect, so in such places: surprise, bugs. The only way to stop > these corruptions is to stop supporting it. > > test infrastructure: IMO lucene 4 wasn't really ready to support > multiple index formats from a test perspective, so we cheated and try > to emulate old formats and rotate them across all tests. This works > ok, but its horrible to debug (since > these are essentially integration tests), the false failure rate is > extremely high, and the complexity of the implementation is high. Its > not just that it misses to find some bugs, it was actually directly > responsible for corruption bugs like LUCENE-5377. But throughout 4.x, > we have fixed the situation and added BaseXYZFormat tests for each > part of an index format. Now we have reliable unit tests for each part > of the abstract codec API: adding new tests here finds old bugs and > prevents new ones in the future. For example I fixed several minor > bugs in 4.x's CFS code just the last few days with this approach. > > there are also other patterns like deleting files, commit fallback > logic, exception handling, addIndexes, etc that we have put > substantial work into recently for 5.0. Whatever was safe to backport > to bugfix releases, we tried, but some of these kinds of "fixes" are > just too heavy for a bugfix branch, and many just cannot even be done > as long as 3.x support exists. There is also some hardening in the 5.0 > index format itself that really could not happen correctly as long as > we must support 3.x. > > So its not just that 3.x causes corruption bugs, it prevents us from > moving forward and actually tackling these other issues. This is > important to do or we will just continue to "tread water" and not > actually get ahead of them. So I did something about it and created a > 5.x branch. Worse case, nobody would follow along, but I guess I just > assumed the situation was widely understood. > >> >> Open questions: What is Heliosearch up to, and what are Elasticsearch’s >> intentions? >> > > I don't see how this is relevant. The straw the broke the camel's back > for me was LUCENE-5934, and it doesn't impact elasticsearch. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >
