Hello, I am very new to Lucene.I am facing one problem. I have one very large index which is constantly getting update(add and delete) at a regular interval.after which I am optimizing the whole index (otherwise searches will be slow) but optimization takes time.So I was thinking to merge only the segments of lesser size(I guess it will be a good compromise between search time and optimization time) i.e. suppose I have 10 segment 1 of 10,000,000 doc 4 of 100,000 doc 4 of 10,000 doc and 1 of 5 doc.
I want to merger 9 segment of lesser size in to one(I believe this would not take much time and searching will improve a lot).But I don't know how to do partial merging.Whether Lucene allow it or not?? or if I can extend indexWriter and add a method optimize of my own where I can specify which cfs file to chose for optimization? Thanks and Regards, Nizam
