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Mike Sokolov commented on LUCENE-8798: -------------------------------------- [~atris] I glanced at the issue you referenced, but I don't see how it relates to this. Could you sketch out a use case where this would be better than using the ordinals that we use today to identify segments? Would these be persisted? > Autogenerated ID for LeafReaderContexts Within An IndexSearcher > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-8798 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8798 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Atri Sharma > Priority: Minor > > It would be good to be able to uniquely identify LeafReaderContext objects > associated within a single IndexSearcher. This would allow storing of > metadata around segments, such as demonstrated inĀ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-879 > The ID will be unique across the IndexSearcher instance and will make no > guarantees of any semantic value outside the instance. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org