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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-8264:
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Adrien, I think the point here is to trigger a rewrite of all segments to 
forcefully update them from N-1 and N, without waiting for the merges (that 
would do the same) to occur; if merges take a long time or never happen, this 
can cause exactly the sort of problem you've described.

> Allow an option to rewrite all segments
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8264
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8264
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Erick Erickson
>            Assignee: Erick Erickson
>            Priority: Major
>
> For the background, see SOLR-12259.
> There are several use-cases that would be much easier, especially during 
> upgrades, if we could specify that all segments get rewritten. 
> One example: Upgrading 5x->6x->7x. When segments are merged, they're 
> rewritten into the current format. However, there's no guarantee that a 
> particular segment _ever_ gets merged so the 6x-7x upgrade won't necessarily 
> be successful.
> How many merge policies support this is an open question. I propose to start 
> with TMP and raise other JIRAs as necessary for other merge policies.
> So far the usual response has been "re-index from scratch", but that's 
> increasingly difficult as systems get larger.



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