So commit() will be available from 2.4 onwards?? Michael McCandless-2 wrote: > > > Ajay Garg wrote: > >> Thanks Mike. That was quite explanatory. A couple of doubts: > > You're welcome! > >> 1. The deletions apply to buffered as well as stored-in-RAM documents. >> Right. So, if the index directory contains 1 document that matches a >> deleteDocument query, and 1 document in RAM that contains the same >> deleteDocument query, then, will the document-in-index-directory be >> deleted >> immediately, or when a flush is called. (It seems logical, that >> irrespective >> of the location of document, "actual" deletion occurs only when a >> flush is >> called .. just need to be doubly sure ...) > > Well ... the "actual" deletion (visible to an IndexReader that opens > the index) is only guaranteed to be performed if you call commit() > (trunk) or close() (2.3, trunk) on the IW. > > First, deleted docIDs, terms and queries are simply buffered in RAM. > Then at some point (no guarantee on when) they are flushed into per- > segment .del files in the directory, but, these del files are > "unreferenced" (by a segments_N file) until commit() or close() is > called. > >> 2. Yes I am planning to rewrite a project using Lucene 2.3.2. So, is >> the >> next version heading straight to 3.0 ??? (Sorry, if this question >> seems to >> be a little out of context of the current thread) > > The current plan is to have a 2.4 release next, then a 2.9 release and > finally 3.0. It's spelled out a bit here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/Java_1.5_Migration > > But there are no dates attached to those bullets! > > Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
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