RE: Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index

2009-12-12 Thread Rob Staveley (Tom)
he.org Subject: RE: Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index The index *should* grow after merging/optimizing, but it will only do this, if the fields you had compressed were not bigger then without compression. One of the tests showed: A string field with 80 ascii chars needed compressed about 250

RE: Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index

2009-12-11 Thread Uwe Schindler
: u...@thetaphi.de > -Original Message- > From: Anshum [mailto:ansh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 7:31 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index > > Hi Tom, > Pt 3: As per my knowledge, it wouldn&

Re: Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index

2009-12-11 Thread Anshum
Hi Tom, Pt 3: As per my knowledge, it wouldn't be a 'mixture' of 2 index types. Rather, as soon as you optimize (or do a IndexWriter operation on the current index), it would expand the index to a non compressed format. I read it somewhere in the release notes that on doing so, a growth in the inde

Lucene 3.0.0 writer with a Lucene 2.3.1 index

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Staveley (Tom)
I'm upgrading from 2.3.1 to 3.0.0. I have 3.0.0 index readers ready to go into production and writers in the process of upgrading to 3.0.0. I think understand the implications of http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BackwardsCompatibility#File_Formats for the upgrade, but I'd love it if someone coul