Hi all, I am a new lucene user and got started with in a really quick time! Its been really nice and I love it :) - I am still trying to do a few things the right way and digging through documentation/archives. Here is my question:
What is the best/fastest way to batch index a large set of documents. I open an IndexWriter at the start and index the documents one by one. But here is my problem: Some of the documents I have may be updated after it has been indexed (even before the batch process completes) and thus I need to reindex them. The only way to do that is using (I may be wrong - but this is what I understood from reading the FAQs, documentation) IndexReader.deleteDocument(term) and indexing it again. But everytime I have to delete a document - i need to open a new reader since the writer would have already written more documents and I can't reuse the reader for the whole session :( - which makes the operation a bit slow. I thought the better way would be to set autocommit as false . In which case even if I reopen the reader everytime to delete any document (using IndexReader.deleteDocument(term)) - I wouldn't find it since the commit has not happened. Is there any other way of deleting the documents before the commit has taken place? This wouldn't have been a problem if deleteDocument was in IndexWriter :( - but I believe there would have been strong reason to have deleteDocument in indexReader and would be interested to hear about it.(or read some pointers) -- Vinu In a world without fences who needs Gates? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
