On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jason Rutherglen < > jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It would be good to be able to commit without opening a new >> reader however with Lucene 2.9 the segment readers for all >> available segments are already created and available via >> getReader which manages the reference counting internally. >> >> Using reopen redundantly creates SRs that are already held >> internally in IW. >> >> > Jason, I think this is something we should consider changing. A user who is > not using NRT features should not pay the price of keeping readers opened. > We are also interested in opening a searcher just-in-time for SOLR-1293. We > have use-cases where a SolrCore is loaded only for indexing and then > unloaded.
This is already true today. If you don't use NRT then the readers are not held open by Lucene. Mike
