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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:02:36 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Yonik Seeley (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-2881) Track FieldInfo per segment instead
 of per-IW-session
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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-2881:
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w.r.t. storing FielInfos in the segments file - don't we get some consistency benefit from the segments file being small (i.e. it's all in one disk block so it either gets written in it's entirety or not, and readers will see all of it, or not)?

> Track FieldInfo per segment instead of per-IW-session
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2881
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2881
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: Realtime Branch, CSF branch, 4.0
>            Reporter: Simon Willnauer
>            Assignee: Michael Busch
>             Fix For: Realtime Branch, CSF branch, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2881.patch, lucene-2881.patch, lucene-2881.patch, lucene-2881.patch, lucene-2881.patch, lucene-2881.patch
>
>
> Currently FieldInfo is tracked per IW session to guarantee consistent global field-naming / ordering. IW carries FI instances over from previous segments which also carries over field properties like isIndexed etc. While having consistent field ordering per IW session appears to be important due to bulk merging stored fields etc. carrying over other properties might become problematic with Lucene's Codec support.  Codecs that rely on consistent properties in FI will fail if FI properties are carried over.
> The DocValuesCodec (DocValuesBranch) for instance writes files per segment and field (using the field id within the file name). Yet, if a segment has no DocValues indexed in a particular segment but a previous segment in the same IW session had DocValues, FieldInfo#docValues will be true  since those values are reused from previous segments. 
> We already work around this "limitation" in SegmentInfo with properties like hasVectors or hasProx which is really something we should manage per Codec & Segment. Ideally FieldInfo would be managed per Segment and Codec such that its properties are valid per segment. It also seems to be necessary to bind FieldInfoS to SegmentInfo logically since its really just per segment metadata.  

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