Vadim,
I suppose https://vimeo.com/32065505 is old good explanation of all Lucene
API dimensions.
It covers the most of your questions. FWIW, Leaf is a segment, and postings
is a list of occurrences.
Regarding attributes in postings, iirc it's only used in some suggester,
but now I even can't find
I made a mistake in issue 5. The real case is the PostingEnum has many
implementations, not the DocIdSetIterator. Please read the question 5 as
follows.
5. Should I use a concrete implementation of PostingEnum? When it makes
sense? Or I always should get PostingsEnum as a result of a call
TermEnum
Hi All
I have a question about API. Particularly, about used terminology.
1. LeafReader. Why it starts with "Leaf"? Can I understand that, that such
reader is intended for reading only one leaf of index tree? Does it mean
that it is working inside a context (LeafReaderContext) of several
document
