Re: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-01 Thread Paul Elschot
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 08:51, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Hello, > > I spent most of today talking to some people about Lucene, and one of > them said how they would really like to have an "instantaneous index > merge", and how he is thinking he could achieve that by simply opening > segments f

RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Engels
Problem is the terms need to be sorted in a single segment. -Original Message- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:52 AM To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Faking index merge by modifying segments file? Hello, I spent most of today ta

RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-01 Thread Kevin Oliver
Hello Otis, I worked on a similar issue a couple on months ago. I've included our email conversation below. Hopefully, your thread will prompt more interest from the mailing list. -Kevin Sort of -- but only within a very controlled situation along with some hackery you can comment out both

RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Engels
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:18 AM To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file? Hello Otis, I worked on a similar issue a couple on months ago. I've included our email conversation below. Hopefully, your thread will prompt

RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-02 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, --- Robert Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem is the terms need to be sorted in a single segment. Are you referring to Term Dictionary (.tis and .tii files as described at http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.html )? If so, is that really true? I don't have an optimiz

Re: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-02 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, --- Paul Elschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 08:51, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I spent most of today talking to some people about Lucene, and one > of > > them said how they would really like to have an "instantaneous > index > > merge", and ho

Re: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-02 Thread David Balmain
> This sounds like it should be possible, except for docId clashes - if > index A had a document with Id 100 and index B also has a document with > Id 100, after my index file copying, index C will end up having 2 > documents with Id 100, and that won't work. So, documents in C would > have to be

RE: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Engels
: Faking index merge by modifying segments file? Hello, --- Robert Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem is the terms need to be sorted in a single segment. Are you referring to Term Dictionary (.tis and .tii files as described at http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.ht

Re: Faking index merge by modifying segments file?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Elschot
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 12:47, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Hello, > > --- Paul Elschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > It's possible to share segments between indexes when the file system > > allows files to be present in multiple directories. > > Oh, are you saying that I could just le