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Is there a maximum number of segment infos whose summary (name and document count) is stored in the segments file?

April 26, 2017DOCUMENT file infos maximum segment segments stored summary

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Is there a maximum number of segment infos whose summary (name and document count) is stored in the segments file?

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All segments in the index are listed in the segments file. There is no hard limit. For an un-optimized index it is proportional to the log of the number of documents in the index. An optimized index contains a single segment.