I've never tried reopen() on a completely new index, but if it works, it works. Try it. I'm not aware of any documentation explicitly mentioning this.
The benefit of using reopen() rather than close/open is that if only some segments have changed the reopen is less costly. For a brand new index everything will have changed so I guess you won't save anything over a standard close/open. -- Ian. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Wendy Meadows <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're using Lucene 3.3.0 and have an index with close to 10 million > documents. When the application is started and the first search is > performed, we open a read only IndexReader by calling > IndexReader.open(directoryString, true). For all following searches, we > check if the indexReader is current and if not, call IndexReader.reopen(). > What happens if we rebuild the index from scratch while using the same > IndexReader and only refreshing it by calling reopen? I can't seem to find > any solid documentation explaining this, but have read a few things that > are giving me the impression that this may not be the best approach. Can > someone at least point me to some documentation regarding this? > > Thank you! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
