Hi, Yes, that is all fine. Because the index merging is concurrent, the order of documents in the resulting index may be different. This is not different than with relational database systems if you insert tables into others (the order of rows is also undefined).
About your question: The different order of results is caused by the scoring algorithm : If 2 documents have exact same score, the second sort order is "index order", which is not stable as explained above. So slightly different result order is perfectly fine. To change this, add a second sort criteria after the score (but this slows down searching for no reason). Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicola Buso [mailto:nb...@ebi.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 5:58 PM > To: Uwe Schindler > Cc: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: IndexWriter.addIndexes() multithread correct? > > Hi Uwe, > > thanks for the reply. > I see slightly different order in the results, and I was thinking are docs > with > the same score and the difference between the two index (one with > "addIndexes" multithreaded and one no) is because of the order of insert in > the merged index; could be this the difference I see? > > > nicola. > > > On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 17:49 +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > Hi Nicola, > > > > Yes, it is thread safe, like all other methods in IndexWriter. In the case > > of > the one taking IndexReaders, Lucene will also do the merging concurrently. > > > > Say hello to Jo McEntyre! :-) > > Uwe > > > > ----- > > Uwe Schindler > > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > > http://www.thetaphi.de > > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nicola Buso [mailto:nb...@ebi.ac.uk] > > > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 5:13 PM > > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > > Subject: IndexWriter.addIndexes() multithread correct? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was wondering if it's correct to call the method: > > > IndexWriter.addIndexes(...) > > > > > > from different threads concurrently. > > > > > > > > > nicola. > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
