Tombstone deletions in IndexReader ---------------------------------- Key: LUCENE-1526 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1526 Project: Lucene - Java Issue Type: Improvement Components: Index Affects Versions: 2.4 Reporter: Jason Rutherglen Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.9
SegmentReader currently uses a BitVector to represent deleted docs. When performing rapid clone (see LUCENE-1314) and delete operations, performing a copy on write of the BitVector can become costly because the entire underlying byte array must be created and copied. A way to make this clone delete process faster is to implement tombstones, a term coined by Marvin Humphrey. Tombstones represent new deletions plus the incremental deletions from previously reopened readers in the current reader. The proposed implementation of tombstones is to accumulate deletions into an int array represented as a DocIdSet. With LUCENE-1476, SegmentTermDocs iterates over deleted docs using a DocIdSet rather than accessing the BitVector by calling get. This allows a BitVector and a set of tombstones to by ANDed together as the current reader's delete docs. A tombstone merge policy needs to be defined to determine when to merge tombstone DocIdSets into a new deleted docs BitVector as too many tombstones would eventually be detrimental to performance. A probable implementation will merge tombstones based on the number of tombstones and the total number of documents in the tombstones. The merge policy may be set in the clone/reopen methods or on the IndexReader. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org