[LUCENE-8003] deprecate forceMerge/optimize and create forceMergeAndFreeze

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Erick Erickson
• Created: 23/Oct/17 15:17
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:20

Description

Spinoff from LUCENE-7976

Part of that discussion surfaced the idea that optimize/forceMerge is being discouraged, but the use-cases for forceMerge still need to be supported. Those use cases make sense when an index changes rarely.

This JIRA is to explore what that would look like.