Hi Michael:
What is the plan/timeline for supporting flexible indexing?
Thanks
-John
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Michael McCandless <
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> John Wang wrote:
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> The problem I am having is stated below, I don't know how to add the
>> minDoc and maxDoc values to the index while keeping backward compatibility.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, TermInfo file format just isn't extensible at the moment, so
> I think for now you'll have to break backward compatibility if you really
> want to store these new fields in the _X.tis/.tii files.
>
> EG here is another recent example of wanting to alter what's stored in
> TermInfo:
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> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1278
>
> For flexible indexing we clearly need to fix this, so that any "plugin" in
> the indexing chain could stuff whatever it wants into the TermInfo, and also
> override how TermInfo is read/written. Even the things we now store in
> TermInfo should be optional. EG say you choose not to store locations (prx)
> for a given field. Then, you would not need the long proxPointer.
>
> Mike
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