On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Jacob Singh <jacobsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I'm using autocommit, and I have a crash of tomcat (or the whole > machine) while there are still docs pending, will I lose those > documents in limbo
Yep. > If the answer is "they go away": Is there anyway to ensure integrity > of an update? You can only be sure that the docs are on the disk after you have done a commit. An optional transaction log would be part of high-availability for writes, is something we should eventually get to though. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com