I read other parts of the email but glanced over this part. Would terms be automatically sorted as they came in? If implemented it would be nice to be able to get an encoded representation (probably byte array) of the document and postings which could be written to a log, and then reentered in another IndexWriter recreating the document and postings.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Michael McCandless > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We've also discussed at one point creating an IndexReader impl that > searches > > the RAM buffer that DocumentsWriter writes to when adding documents. I > > think it's easier than it sounds, on first glance, because > DocumentsWriter > > is in fact writing the postings in nearly the same format as is used when > > the segment is flushed. > > That would be very nice, and should also make it much easier to > implement updateable documents (changing/adding/removing single > fields). > > -Yonik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
