On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Becker, Thomas <thomas.bec...@netapp.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response Adrien. I guess I'll just leave things as they are > for now. To be clear though, do merged segments get cleaned up completely > even if the IndexWriter is never closed?
The way it works is that indexing data creates segments (a single segment usually contains a large number of documents), but the number of segments is bounded so whenever this limit is reached, a merge is triggered. When merging segments, deleted documents are skipped, this is how deletions get expunged. > Currently I'm using NRT search with a single writer that stays open for the > lifetime of the application. This product will be shipped to customers, so > I need the index to be entirely self-managing. Sounds good: having a long-living IndexWriter is the best way to index documents. It will take care of merging segments whenever necessary. -- Adrien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
