Hi John,
Are you sure you made the id "tokenized" while indexing? I could overcome
this issue by having a tokenized field, which was used for the deletion as
below.
document.add(new Field("id", id, Field.Store.YES, *Field.Index.TOKENIZED*));
Thanks
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael McCandless <
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>
>
> John Patterson wrote:
>
> I just discovered some strange behaviour with deleted documents. I do a
>> search for documents with a certain query and delete one using
>> IndexWriter.deleteDocuments(Term) using a key for the term. Then I repeat
>> the search and the document is still there because I use a custom
>> HitCollector which does not check IndexReader.isDeleted(int). That is all
>> expected.
>>
>
> Hmm -- once a document is deleted, your HitCollector won't ever see it.
> During searching, isDeleted is called per document at a very low level.
>
> If your HitCollector is seeing it, it sounds like it wasn't really deleted.
> Are you sure you closed the IndexWriter and then reopened your searcher, so
> that the searcher will see the deletion?
>
> But when I try to show the deleted document by searching by key using the
>> same term it was deleted with, it is not found. So it seems that the term
>> (id:MYKEY) is removed from the index.
>>
>
> This is odd -- the document should either be deleted (entirely), or not.
> You shouldn't get different behavior if you search for the doc one way vs
> another.
>
> So I was surprised that the term for the id was removed but not the other
>> terms for document.
>>
>
> That make two of us!
>
> Mike
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Kalani Ruwanpathirana
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