On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Adam Retter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry for the very delayed reply. I had to put this on hold whilst I
> focused on another project. I am now revisiting this.

No problem, the internet never forgets!

> Would I be correct in thinking that IndexWriter.addIndexes only allows
> me to add entries to an existing index, i.e. if I wanted to remove
> entries this would not work for me.

That's correct.

> Also out of interest what happens
> for updates, where there are entries for the same key in the core
> index and in the new index for which I call addIndexes?

Then you would have 2 docs for a given key, i.e. the old one is not replaced.

It's logically as if you called IW.addDocument for all documents in
the index passed to IW.addIndexes.

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com

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