Small correction here: you are able to "write" to a 3.x index using
4.0. It's just that the newly created segments will be written using
the Lucene4x codec.
Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Stephen Howe wrote:
> Paul,
>
> So long as you are not w
Paul,
So long as you are not writing to the 3.x index, it appears Lucene 4.0 can
read the indexes in a read only format. See Mike McCandle's blog post
http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/07/lucene-400-alpha-at-long-last.html about
the alpha release codecs. As to whether or not that codec allows yo
to latest file format (LUCENE-3082)."
Bottom line: Write a test and see for yourself.
-- Jack Krupansky
-Original Message-
From: Sitowitz, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:31 PM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Cc: sitow...@gmail.com
Subject: Lucene Index backward compat
Hello,
I have two products that are using Lucene: The first product creates the Lucene
indexes for some data using Lucene version 3.01. The second product utilizes
the indexes created by the first product for text search purposes and is also
using Lucene 3.01. I understand that the latest vers
