[LUCENE-9554] Expose pendingNumDocs from IndexWriter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0, 8.7
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nhat Nguyen
• Created: 02/Oct/20 14:30
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:08
• Resolved: 02/Oct/20 22:45

Description

Some applications can use the pendingNumDocs from IndexWriter to estimate that the number of documents of an index is reaching to the hard limit so that it can reject writes without constructing Lucene documents.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1941
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1944