2billion is a hard limit. Usually people split indexes into multiple index long before this, and use the parallel multi reader (I think) to read from all of the sub-indexes.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Zhang, Lisheng <lisheng.zh...@broadvision.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Now lucene uses integer as document id, so it means we cannot have more > than 2^31-1 documents within one collection? Even if we use MultiSearcher > the document id is still integer so it seems this is still a problem? > > We have been using lucene for some time and our document count is growing > rather rapidly, maybe this is a much-discussed issue already, but I did not > find the lead, any pointer would be really appreciated. > > Thanks very much for helps, Lisheng > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org