There was a deadlock issue originally when the searcher was loaded lazily. That is when we introduced the getNewestSearcher() method in SolrCore
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : is it required to open the searcher in the constructor of SolrCore?. > : We have a usecase where we just open a SolrCore to write a document > : and close it. Opening the searcher is proving to be quite expensive > : for us. > > Hmmm... i suspect it was setup that way initially because "add" required > a searcher to check for an existing doc to delete first. conceptually we > should be able to change the SolrCore so a searcher is only opened once > needed -- but practically this may be a challenge ... i believe there are > more then a few places where an assumtion is made about there being at > least one open searcher. > > > > -Hoss > > -- --Noble Paul
