Is there a way, without the knowledge of how IndexWriter was used, by which we can say that an empty index currently open is a really fresh index created for the first time?
Thanks. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > > If you create IndexWriter with create=true in a directory that has no > Lucene index, segments_1 is created. > > If you do the same, but in a directory that already has a Lucene index, > segments_(N+1) is created (where N was the last generation of the current > index in that directory). > > But... this is an internal detail to Lucene's index format and could change > in some future release. > > Mike > > > Akshay wrote: > > Hi List, >> >> How to find if an empty lucene index has been created for the very first >> time? Is the generation number 1 enough to determine this? >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Akshay K. Ukey. >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Regards, Akshay K. Ukey.
