It is true that you can store more data and that will make it possible to get it back. Storing fields (w/ or w/o indexing) allows you to pull them back. Storing term vectors gives you something in-between nothing and everything.
However, you're still gonna get stuck on the "update" part. Lucene does not rewrite segments. It's fundamental to Lucene that it doesn't: from that a lot of Lucene's concurrent nature flow. The way I think of it is that Lucene never adds docs to segments. It creates single doc segments and it merges segments to create bigger segments. No where in that model is there the concept of changing anything inside a segment once it's been created. Could you tell a little more about why delete/reinsert is not viable for you? A lot of people have dealt with this issue and come up with acceptable solutions ... -----Original Message----- From: Neal Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:52 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: document field updates Steven Parkes wrote: >There are no plans to do this. It's essentially impossible, given (1) >the reverse nature of text indexes and (2) Lucene's write-once segment >architecture. What if the field is stored and unindexed? It should be possible to update the contents of that in isolation. How would that be done? Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
