On 8/8/07, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/8/07, Ning Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But you still think it's worth to be included in IndexWriter, right? > > I'm not sure... (unless I'm missing some obvious use-cases). > If one could get a list of IndexReaders, one could directly use those > for deletions, right?
This is so that users won't have to close IndexWriter to do such deletes, flush deletes and re-open IndexWriter to continue adding documents. On 8/8/07, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To make delete by docid useful, one needs a way to *get* those docids. > A callback after flush that provided acurrent list of readers for the > segments would serve. Maybe this can wait? After LUCENE-847 (factor merge policy), merge behaviour could be much more controllable and then we'll see whether such a mechanism is needed. Ning --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]