Adding a document does not necessarily cause existing index files to be
modified. 'not necessarily' because sometimes adding a document
triggers segment merging. There is a recent (March 5th) article on
http://onjava.com about Lucene that talks more about that.
Otis
--- Avi Drissman <avi_drissman@baseview.com> wrote:
> At 10:54 AM -0800 3/19/03, you wrote:
>
> >If your data will be changing frequently and indices all of them
> need
> >to be in sync all the time then yes, probably, esp. if the changes
> are
> >frequent but small.
>
> Hmm...
>
> I think I need to rephrase my first question. Suppose I have a big
> index. I add a document. What seems to me to happen is that the files
>
> are read into memory, manipulated, and then written back out to disk
> as new files. What doesn't appear to be happening is modification of
> the files in-place. Is that true?
>
> If so, I think that negatively impacts my ability to store the
> indexes in the database...
>
> Avi
> --
> Avi 'rlwimi' Drissman
> avi@baseview.com
> Argh! This darn mail server is trunca
>
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