calling commit() on IndexReader

[Tim Sturge]

Can anyone explain to me why commit() on IndexReader is a protected method?
I want to do periodic deletes from my main index. I don't want to reopen 
the index (all that is changing are things are being deleted), so I 
don't want to call close(), but I can't call commit() from outside the 
class directly (which writes the *.del file)

Is this done for my protection or for my annoyance? (meaning, if I 
subclass just this to make the method public am I going to cause any 
problems?)

Thanks,

Tim

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