On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote:
> > : The index version shown on the dashboard is the time at which the most > : recent index segment was created. I'm not sure why it has a value older > than > : a month if a commit has happened after that time. > > I'm fairly certian that's false. > > last time i checked, newly created indexes are assigned a version based on > index time, but after that each commit simply imcrements the version - so > index versions are only suitable for comparing if one instance of an index > is newer or older then another instance of the same index -- it doesn't > tell you anything about the relative age. > > Thanks for clearing that up Hoss. I only looked at a place where IndexCommit was being created and it used System.currentTimeMillis, hence the confusion. Anyways, what the version represents is not guaranteed except that it will uniquely identify a commit point so users should not make any assumptions. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
