[LUCENE-5621] remove IndexOutput.flush()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.9, 6.0
• Component/s: core/store
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 20/Apr/14 01:11
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:05
• Resolved: 20/Apr/14 11:51

Description

This method is extraneous: it just makes the API confusing. Its not actually used anywhere by Lucene, so it shouldn't be mandatory on IndexOutput.

Maybe it had some use-case before things were append-only, i dont know, but now its time for it to go.