You could also try swapping the order of your commit and expunge
calls. The javadocs for expungeDeletes says:
Note that this call does not first commit any buffered documents, so
you must do so yourself if necessary.
--
Ian.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, anshum.gu...@naukri.com
<ansh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> You could try and debug using
> IndexReader.numDeletedDocs() ;
> On the index to check if the documents are expunged or not.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jamie
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> ReplyTo: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Index Growing on Delete
> Sent: Jan 22, 2010 14:04
>
> Hi
>
> In our application,on a periodic basis, documents get deleted from the
> index. Although the deleted documents correctly cannot be found when
> searching the index, our users are complaining that their hard drive is
> fulling up, since the index continues to grow in size despite the fact
> that the entries should be deleted from the index. I cannot understand
> why this is the case since I call both writer.expungeDeletes and
> writer.commit(). Any ideas?
>
> Here is my delete function:
>
> public void deleteDocs(Term[] terms) throws MessageSearchException {
> logger.debug("delete docs");
> try {
> indexLock.lock();
> openIndex();
> try {
> writer.deleteDocuments(terms);
> } catch (Exception e) {
> throw new MessageSearchException("failed to
> delete doc from index."+e.getMessage(),e,logger);
> } finally {
> try {
> writer.expungeDeletes(false);
> writer.commit();
> } catch (Exception io) {
> throw new MessageSearchException("failed to
> expunge docs from index"+io.getMessage(),io,logger);
> }
> }
> } catch (Throwable t) {
> logger.error("failed to delete docs from
> index."+t.getMessage(),t);
> } finally {
> indexLock.unlock();
> }
> }
>
> As an aside note, we are moving to Lucene 3.0 from 2.9. What is the
> equivalent of:
>
> QueryParser queryParser = new QueryParser("body",analyzer);
> and "Field.Index.TOKENIZED". If I change this, will my index maintain
> compatibility?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jamie
>
>
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