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Michael McCandless resolved LUCENE-1705.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Thanks Tim!  I just committed this.

> Add deleteAllDocuments() method to IndexWriter
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1705
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1705
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>            Reporter: Tim Smith
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>         Attachments: DeleteAllFlushDocCountFix.patch, 
> IndexWriterDeleteAll.patch, LUCENE-1705.patch
>
>
> Ideally, there would be a deleteAllDocuments() or clear() method on the 
> IndexWriter
> This method should have the same performance and characteristics as:
> * currentWriter.close()
> * currentWriter = new IndexWriter(..., create=true,...)
> This would greatly optimize a delete all documents case. Using 
> deleteDocuments(new MatchAllDocsQuery()) could be expensive given a large 
> existing index.
> IndexWriter.deleteAllDocuments() should have the same semantics as a 
> commit(), as far as index visibility goes (new IndexReader opening would get 
> the empty index)
> I see this was previously asked for in LUCENE-932, however it would be nice 
> to finally see this added such that the IndexWriter would not need to be 
> closed to perform the "clear" as this seems to be the general recommendation 
> for working with an IndexWriter now
> deleteAllDocuments() method should:
> * abort any background merges (they are pointless once a deleteAll has been 
> received)
> * write new segments file referencing no segments
> This method would remove one of the final reasons i would ever need to close 
> an IndexWriter and reopen a new one 

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