Document last index update timestamp storage Feature: Issue 13901 Change-Id: I70db23365130884406cf7fc6acdcaca208a26652
diff --git a/src/main/resources/Documentation/about.md b/src/main/resources/Documentation/about.md index fd0b56e..83d3862 100644 --- a/src/main/resources/Documentation/about.md +++ b/src/main/resources/Documentation/about.md
@@ -103,3 +103,17 @@ For further information and supported options, refer to [config](config.md) documentation. + +### Last index update timestamp storage + +The plugin keeps track of the timestamp when it lastly updated an index. +When the [`autoReindex.enabled` option](config.md) is set to `true`, the timestamp +is used to determine which changes to reindex when a node is temporarily out of +sync with the primary, for example, after a node being offline for a long time. + +The HA plugin keeps the last update timestamp for each index in the following files: +* `<gerrit_home>/data/high-availability/group` +* `<gerrit_home>/data/high-availability/account` +* `<gerrit_home>/data/high-availability/change` + +The timestamp is stored in this format `yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.ss`, i.e.: `2020-12-18T12:17:53.25`.