Your understanding is correct. There is no way to just add a new field to an existing document, or to update one field in an existing document.
-- Ian. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, andynuss <andrew_n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to add a rank field to my index with numbers 1 thru 10, and apply a > boost appropriate for each of the values. One of the other indexed fields > is huge, about 40,000 chars. My understanding is that if I change the new > "rank" field from 1 to 2, the huge field is reindexed. Is there any way to > avoid this? What do others do? > > (I would use IndexWriter.updateDocument "which deletes and readds the entire > document".) > > Andy > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/index-field-used-for-boosting-rank-tp876181p876181.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
