: > Actually is #2 a hard requirement? : : A lot of Lucene users depend on having document number correspond to : age, I think. ISTR Hatcher at least recommending techniques that : require it.
"Corrispond to age" may be missleading as it implies that the actual docid has meaning ... it's more that the relative order of addition is preserved regardless of deletions/merging A trivial example of using this is getting the N newest documents matching a search using a HitCollector, it's just a bounded queue that only remembers the last N things you put in it. An more complicated example is duplicate unique field detection: iterating over a TermDoc and knowing that the doc with the higheest docId is the last one added, so the earlier ones can be ignored/deleted. (as i recall, Solr takes advantage of this.) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
