Text Indices Are Force Merged to Single Lucene Segment
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Description
We force merge all segments of a single Lucene index to a single segment for text indices today, thus potentially creating a single large segment and restricting the possibility of searching multiple segments concurrently. Instead, we should be depending on Lucene's merging policy and define a custom policy if we need to keep open file handles under control.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating where Pinot force-merges all segments for text indices and read the Lucene merge-policy configuration; done means text indices rely on Lucene's merging policy without forcing one segment, while controlling open file handles if needed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- databases, search
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100