Thanks Peter & Eric Agreed, this is a costly mistake, and hopefully others will not make this same mistake in the future. I will have to reindex as some of my fields are not stored.
Regards Tommy On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > In addition to Peter's comment, changing future documents to > Field.index.NOT_ANALYZED won't affect your current documents. > > If (and only if) you stored all your data, you could conceivably > read through your entire index and re-index into another > location and have your PK available. *BUT* the only data you > have available to put in your new documents is in fields for > which Field.Store.YES was specified, fields that were > indexed-only don't have any way to recover the original > data that isn't lossy. > > Best > Erick > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:38 AM, ppp c <peter.c.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >> terrible. >> >> you have made a big mistake, since you in fact made the primary key >> unsearchable. >> There is no any other method, since deleteDocument, updateDocument both >> need Term to be searchable. >> The only way is during the traversal of all the docs and finding the >> matched field and delete it. >> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Thanh Ha <javaby...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I indexed my document using Field.Index.NO as the field index type, so >>> now I cannot search it to make updates. >>> Here's how the document was added: >>> >>> Document doc = new Document(); >>> doc.add(new Field("content_id", "1234", Field.Store.YES, >>> Field.Index.NO, Field.TermVector.NO)); >>> >>> The content_id is the primary key for my documents. >>> Using updateDocument(Term,doc) won't work because the field must be >>> indexed in order to match (?). >>> >>> >>> Since I did store the value, is it possible to update this field index >>> type to Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED ? >>> >>> >>> It will be very difficult to reindex, so any feedback is appreciated. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tommy >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org