On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Moshe Cohen <mos...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using Lucene 2.4.1 via Pylucene and have encountered the following > behavior: > When there are deleted documents in the index the search scores are > identical to those that exist had those documents not been deleted. > If I optimize the index and the deleted documents are actually removed, the > the scoring is the same as if those documents were never indexed at all.
This is working as designed... a known design tradeoff / limitation. When a document is marked as deleted, document frequency for terms don't change (changing them would be impractical). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
