Thank you for the quick response.

But I still can delete that document - based on docId right? I understand
docId may change from time to time,
but if I iterate a bunch of docs and then fetch the docId from the doc I
want to delete and then delete that doc will it still work?

Best regards,
C.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Michael McCandless <
luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:

> No, you don't need a key for append-only usage.
>
> Lucene itself doesn't care if you have a unique key per document, and
> in fact it's very costly, especially if your documents are otherwise
> tiny, to add one if you don't really need it.
>
> Mike McCandless
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Cam Bazz <camb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Do I need to add a key, if I will not be
> >
> > a. updating the document
> > b. will not fetch the document by key?
> >
> > What could be the possible downside of not using a key that uniquely
> > identifies the document?
> >
> > I am building a log processor, and all I will do is sort and iterate.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > C.
>

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