On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Michael Della Bitta <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote: > Has the Solr team considered renaming the optimize function to avoid > leading people down the path of this antipattern?
If it were never the right thing to do, it could simply be removed. The problem is that it's sometimes the right thing to do - but it depends heavily on the use cases and trade-offs. The best thing is to simply document what it does and the cost of doing it. -Yonik http://lucidworks.com