IndexWriter.flush dose not flush the segmentInfos in Lucene 2.3

[Liu_Chao]

I found that for lucene 2.3, IndexWriter.flush does not flush the segmentInfos.

For example, I create a new index directory and add 10 documents to it:

        IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(dir, new StandardAnalyzer(), true);
        indexDocs(writer, SOURCE_DIR);//in the source directory, there are 10 
documents.
        writer.flush();

If the IndexWriter is not closed and then an IndexReader is opened to this 
index:

        IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(INDEX_DIR);
        int docNum = reader.numDocs();//docNum = 0

at this time, docNum = 0, the new opened IndexReader cannot see the new added 
documents.

But if the IndexWriter is closed and then an IndexReader is opened to the Index:

        writer.close();
        IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(index);
        int docNum = reader.numDocs();//docNum = 10

at this time the new opened IndexReader can see the documents added by the 
IndexWriter.

I think the reason is :

IndexWriter.flush only flushes the data from memory to disk, the metadata of 
segments segmentInfos is not flushed to the disk. 

So that if the IndexWriter is not closed, the new opened IndexReader cannot see 
the new added documents. 

That means what the IndexReader can see is not the segment structure when it is 
opened but when the last time the IndexWriter is opened. 


I think it is a bug for new version of lucene 2.3 or at least the behavior is 
different from lucene 2.1


Yours

Liu Chao