Hi Samuel,
Indeed, you can have a PK-like identifier field in each Lucene Document and use
deleteDocument(new Term("your PK field", "your ID"))
While Having an ID field that uniquely identifies a document is not a must, it
is a Lucene best practice in my book and experience so far.
Otis
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From: Samuel LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:00:57 PM
Subject: deleting/updating/identifying a document
Hi everybody !
I'm asking myself about the way Lucene deals with deleting documents.
As far as I know, a document is identified by a document number, but
this document number is not reliable for long-term issues as it may
change on segment merging.
The way Lucene deletes documents' data from the index questions me,
cause it relies on terms (or document number, which as told above is not
reliable, and must be retrieved from a request). The methods I've found
for deleting documents from the index are those from IndexWriter and
IndexReader classes, deleteDocuments(term ) or deleteDocuments(term[] ).
These methods deletes the index'entries containing the given term.
According to the API javadoc, deleteDocuments(term[] ) will delete each
file that contains at least one of the given terms: if it really works
in this way, I don't really understand why it's does so. Wouldn't it be
more useful if it deleted each file containing *all of* the given terms?
(or maybe it'is the way it works actually?)
These reflexions lead me to conclude that, in order to be able to remove
the entries of a specific document in a Lucene index, we must store an
untokenized field to identify each document solely. I find it strange
having to use such an "artifice" to keep traces of documents
independantly. It's not very impeding, it's just... strange.
Any contributive thinkings on this matter are welcome :)
Thanks for reading,
Samuel
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