Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java	Sat Nov 27 15:02:06 2010 -0500
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java	Sat Nov 27 17:11:12 2010 -0500
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
   final StoredFieldsWriter fieldsWriter;
 
   public DocFieldProcessor(DocumentsWriter docWriter, DocFieldConsumer consumer) {
-    this.fieldInfos = new FieldInfos();
     this.docWriter = docWriter;
     this.consumer = consumer;
+    fieldInfos = docWriter.getFieldInfos();
     consumer.setFieldInfos(fieldInfos);
     fieldsWriter = new StoredFieldsWriter(docWriter, fieldInfos);
   }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocumentsWriter.java
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocumentsWriter.java	Sat Nov 27 15:02:06 2010 -0500
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocumentsWriter.java	Sat Nov 27 17:11:12 2010 -0500
@@ -315,13 +315,15 @@
   }
 
   private boolean closed;
+  private final FieldInfos fieldInfos;
 
-  DocumentsWriter(Directory directory, IndexWriter writer, IndexingChain indexingChain, int maxThreadStates) throws IOException {
+  DocumentsWriter(Directory directory, IndexWriter writer, IndexingChain indexingChain, int maxThreadStates, FieldInfos fieldInfos) throws IOException {
     this.directory = directory;
     this.writer = writer;
     this.similarity = writer.getConfig().getSimilarity();
     this.maxThreadStates = maxThreadStates;
     flushedDocCount = writer.maxDoc();
+    this.fieldInfos = fieldInfos;
 
     consumer = indexingChain.getChain(this);
     if (consumer instanceof DocFieldProcessor) {
@@ -329,10 +331,14 @@
     }
   }
 
+  public FieldInfos getFieldInfos() {
+    return fieldInfos;
+  }
+
   /** Returns true if any of the fields in the current
    *  buffered docs have omitTermFreqAndPositions==false */
   boolean hasProx() {
-    return (docFieldProcessor != null) ? docFieldProcessor.fieldInfos.hasProx()
+    return (docFieldProcessor != null) ? fieldInfos.hasProx()
                                        : true;
   }
 
@@ -602,8 +608,8 @@
 
   synchronized private void initFlushState(boolean onlyDocStore) {
     initSegmentName(onlyDocStore);
-    final SegmentCodecs info = SegmentCodecs.build(docFieldProcessor.fieldInfos, writer.codecs);
-    flushState = new SegmentWriteState(infoStream, directory, segment, docFieldProcessor.fieldInfos,
+    final SegmentCodecs info = SegmentCodecs.build(fieldInfos, writer.codecs);
+    flushState = new SegmentWriteState(infoStream, directory, segment, fieldInfos,
                                        docStoreSegment, numDocsInRAM, numDocsInStore, writer.getConfig().getTermIndexInterval(), info);
   }
 
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java	Sat Nov 27 15:02:06 2010 -0500
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java	Sat Nov 27 17:11:12 2010 -0500
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@
 
       setRollbackSegmentInfos(segmentInfos);
 
-      docWriter = new DocumentsWriter(directory, this, conf.getIndexingChain(), conf.getMaxThreadStates());
+      docWriter = new DocumentsWriter(directory, this, conf.getIndexingChain(), conf.getMaxThreadStates(), getCurrentFieldInfos());
       docWriter.setInfoStream(infoStream);
       docWriter.setMaxFieldLength(maxFieldLength);
 
@@ -1154,7 +1154,27 @@
       }
     }
   }
-  
+
+  private FieldInfos getCurrentFieldInfos() throws IOException {
+    final FieldInfos fieldInfos;
+    if (segmentInfos.size() > 0) {
+      SegmentInfo info = segmentInfos.info(segmentInfos.size()-1);
+      Directory cfsDir;
+      if (info.getUseCompoundFile()) {
+        cfsDir = new CompoundFileReader(directory, IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(info.name, "", IndexFileNames.COMPOUND_FILE_EXTENSION));
+      } else {
+        cfsDir = directory;
+      }
+      fieldInfos = new FieldInfos(cfsDir, IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(info.name, "", IndexFileNames.FIELD_INFOS_EXTENSION));
+      if (info.getUseCompoundFile()) {
+        cfsDir.close();
+      }
+    } else {
+      fieldInfos = new FieldInfos();
+    }
+    return fieldInfos;
+  }
+
   private synchronized void setRollbackSegmentInfos(SegmentInfos infos) {
     rollbackSegmentInfos = (SegmentInfos) infos.clone();
     rollbackSegments = new HashMap<SegmentInfo,Integer>();