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Robert Muir commented on SOLR-3141:
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I'm coming around on this issue myself though. For the benefits, optimize is
not a good name. It calls out to be called. The abuse is clearly there, and we
should probably try more to address it than just doc.
My opinion is coming around to leave it for 3.x, change it to an expert option
for 4 that works the same, is understated, and is called forceMerge or whatever.
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I think we can probably make improvements here, here are my ideas:
# any 'auto-optimization' in our own code is really bad. We should fix any
auto/default
optimizes so that if users want to optimize, they must specify it.
# any 'auto-optimization' in third-party integrations is equally bad, but we
can fix this
in a number of ways. Sure, making optimize a no-op is one solution, another is
to
actually fix the docs, ping those projects with an email or offer patches, etc.
# we can improve the docs to really emphasize to users how expensive manual
optimize and expungeDeletes calls are. Personally I feel the wiki text Yonik
linked to
is way too nice about this.
# the name 'optimize' will always be a trap I think. Can't we start by adding
'forceMerge'
and issue a deprecation warning if someone uses optimize (but still doing it
anyway). Then
the next step would be (in some future release), to return a hard error if
someone uses
'optimize', since eventually it gets removed.
> Deprecate OPTIMIZE command in Solr
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> Key: SOLR-3141
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3141
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: update
> Affects Versions: 3.5
> Reporter: Jan Høydahl
> Labels: force, optimize
> Fix For: 3.6
>
>
> Background: LUCENE-3454 renames optimize() as forceMerge(). Please read that
> issue first.
> Now that optimize() is rarely necessary anymore, and renamed in Lucene APIs,
> what should be done with Solr's ancient optimize command?
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