These are indeed two ways to change the on-disk layout of our file formats.
In general, I try to follow the following rules:
- If the format is not bw-compatible (e.g. formats in lucene/codecs), do
the change in-place and bump both VERSION_START and VERSION_CURRENT to make
sure users get a
Hey y'all,
I am confused about when we should supply a new format name (e.g.
Lucene911... vs. Lucene99) versus using a new metadata header version
(incrementing VERSION_CURRENT).
Are there general rules to follow?
At first glance, using a new Lucene format name prefix is functionally the
same
