Apparently the optimize operation (called force-merge in Elasticsearch) can have unintended, harmful side effects: see the warning in [ https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-forcemerge.html#indices-forcemerge ]
Thus we probably should avoid calling optimize by default in the mass indexer, and mention that only people who know what they are doing should use this.
Also, we should rename “optimize” to “forceMerge”, like they did in Elasticsearch and Lucene, to clear any ambiguity. |
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