On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:21, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > (replying to the dev list, see context below) > > : Unfortunately, you can't easily recover from this (except by > : reindexing your docs again). > : > : Failing to call IW.commit() or IW.close() means no segments file was > written... > > > I know there were good reasons for eliminating the "autoCommit" > functionality from IndexWriter, but threads like tis make me thing thta > even though "autoCommit" on flush/merge/whatever was bad, having an option > for some sort of "autoClose" using a finalizer might by a good idea to > give new/novice users a safety net. > > In the case of totally successful normal operation, this would result in > one commit at GC (assuming the JVM calls the finalizer) and if there were > any errors it should (if i understnad correclty) do an implicit rollback. > > Anyone see a downside? Yes. Totally unexpected magical behaviour. What if I didn't commit something on purporse?
> ... > > : > I had a program running for 2 days to build an index for around 160 > million > : > text files, and after program ended, I tried searching the index and found > : > the index was not correctly built, *indexReader.numDocs()* returns 0. I > : > checked the index directory, it looked good, all the index data seemed to > be > : > there, the directory is 1.5 Gigabytes in size. > : > > : > I checked my code and found that I forgot to call > *indexWriter.optimize()*and > : > *indexWriter.close()*, I want to know if it is possible to > : > *re-optimize()*the index so I don't need to rebuild the whole index > : > from scratch? I don't > : > really want the program to take another 2 days. > > > -Hoss > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Kirill Zakharenko/Кирилл Захаренко E-Mail/Jabber: ear...@gmail.com Phone: +7 (495) 683-567-4 ICQ: 104465785 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
