If you search the mail archive for "update in place" (no quotes), you'll find extensive discussions of this idea. Although you're raising an interesting variant because you're talking about a non- indexed field, so now I'm not sure those discussions are relevant.
I don't know of anyone who has done what you're asking though... But if it's just stored data, you could go out to a database and pick it up at search time, although there are sound reasons for not requiring a database connection. What about having a separate index for just this one field? And make it an indexed value, along with some id (not the Lucene ID, probably) of your original. Something like index fields ID (unique ID for each document) field (the corresponding value). Searching this should be very fast, and if the usual Hits based search wasn't fast enough, perhaps something with termenum/termdocs would be faster. Or you could just index the unique ID and store (but not index) the field. Hits or variants should work for that too. So the general algorithm would be: search main index for each hit: search second index and fetch that field I have no idea whether this has any traction for your problem space, but I thought I'd mention it. This assumes that building the mutable index would be acceptably fast... Although conceptually, this is really just a Map of ID/value pairs. I have no idea how much data you're talking about, but if it's not a huge data set, might it be possible just to store it in a simple map and look it up that way? And if I'm all wet, I'm sure others will chime in... Best Erick * * On 3/14/07, Thomas K. Burkholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, I'm using lucene to index and store entries from a database table for ultimate retrieval as search results. This works fine. But I find myself in the position of wanting to occasionally (daily-ish) bulk- update a single, stored, non-indexed field in every document in the index, without changing any indexed value at all. The obviously documented way to do this would be to remove and then re-add each updated document successively. However, I know from experience that rebuilding our index from scratch in this fashion would take several hours at least, which is too long to delay pending incremental index jobs. It seems to me that at some level it should be possible to iterate over all the document storage on disk and modify only the field I'm interested in (no index modification required remember as this is a field that is stored but not indexed). It's plain from the documentation on file formats that it would be potentially possible to do this from a low level, however before I go possibly re-inventing that wheel, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any existing code out there that would aid in solving this problem. Thanks in advance, //Thomas Thomas K. Burkholder Code Janitor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
