OK I'm glad it's resolved.
Another way to handle the "expire old documents" would be to index
into separate indices by time, and use MultiReader to search all of
them.
E.g. maybe one index per day. This way, to delete a day just means
you don't pass that index to MultiReader.
Mike McCandless
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Mike,
Thank you for your help. Below are a few comments to directly reply to
your questions, but in general your suggestions helped to get me on the
right track and I believe that have been able to solve the Lucene component
of my problems. The short answer was that I when I had previously tri
Mike,
Thanks for the input, it will take me some time to digest and trying
everything you wrote about. I will post back the answers to your questions
and results to from the suggestions you made once I have gone over
everything. Thanks for the quick reply,
Jason
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:13 P
It sounds like there are at least two issues.
First, that it takes so long to do the delete.
Unfortunately, deleting by Term is at heart a costly operation. It
entails up to one disk seek per segment in your index; a custom
Directory impl that makes seeking costly would slow things down, or if
t
I knew that I had forgotten something. Below is the line that I use to
create the field that I am trying to use to delete the entries with. I
hope this avoids some confusion. Thank you very much to anyone that takes
the time to read these messages.
doc.add(new StringField("FileName",filename, F
Let me start by stating that I almost certain that I am doing something
wrong, and that I hope that I am because if not there is a VERY large bug
in Lucene. What I am trying to do is use the method
deleteDocuments(Term... terms)
out of the IndexWriter class to delete several Term object Arra
