Solr's use of Lucene's Compression field

2008-09-03 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Thinking about http://lucene.markmail.org/message/mef4cdo7m3s6i3fc?q=background+merge+exception , it occurred to me that we probably should refactor Solr's offering of compression. Currently, we rely on Field.COMPRESS from Lucene, but this really isn't considered best practice, see

Re: Solr's use of Lucene's Compression field

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Klaas
Agreed. It was the simplest thing to do at the time, but it would definitely be preferrable to offer the much faster lesser levels of compression. -Mike On 3-Sep-08, at 8:57 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Thinking about

Re: Solr's use of Lucene's Compression field

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Klaas
Also I see that another Lucene bug (LUCENE-1374) was found relating to compressed fields in lucene (when we first added compressed field support to solr a lucene bug involving lazy-loaded fields and compression was uncovered, too). It would be good to change the implementation simply to