On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Joe Ye <yuanzhou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks very much TX! > > Regarding "But the updates don't actually occur during the call", could you > elaborate on this a bit more? So when would the actual update occur, by > which I mean persisting to disk?
The same as any other updates - when you call commit(). > Is there a cache of a number of docValues updates before committing to disk? Someone who knows the internals better would probably have to answer this one. I don't know how merging of updates to doc values works. (I am guessing the doc values generation come into play here?) But flushing to disk and committing changes are two different things anyway. Lucene will periodically flush changes to disk when it decides that it can't keep more in memory, This is not the same as it actually committing, which makes the changes visible to newly-opened readers. You just end up with files on disk which aren't referenced from the segments file yet. > If so, when happens if a crash occurs before those updates are committed? Hopefully none of the updates occur, but the science hasn't been done. (It seems like a fairly easy experiment to do if you really want to test it.) TX --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
