Oh is it. So whenever in future these segments gets merged, i will have my document count going down right?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, IndexWriter.updateDocument() deletes and then adds. See the > javadocs. So your index will have deleted docs. Why do you care? > They'll go away eventually as segments get merged. > > If you really do care, see IndexWriter,forceMergeDeletes(). See also > the javadoc for that: This is often a horribly costly operation; > rarely is it warranted. > > > -- > Ian. > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Deepak Shakya <just...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using updateDocument() method to update my document in the lucene > > index. Here is how I am doing it. > > > > writer.updateDocument(new Term(Constants.DOC_ID_FIELD, > > doc.get(Constants.DOC_ID_FIELD)), doc); > > > > I check my index data with Luke, and find that on second run of the > > indexing, Luke tells that Deleted Document - not available. So basically, > > the document is marked as deleted, but it still resides in the index. > > > > I don't want to keep these marked deleted documents. Am I doing it wrong? > > > > Also, my understanding was that, when I am updating the document, it > > deletes the old one and then adds the new one. Is that not the case? > > > > -- > > With Regards, > > Deepak Shakya > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- With Regards, Deepak Shakya http://www.google.com/profiles/justdpk
