I guess so. I don't pay much attention to these figures but presumably IndexReader.numDocs() and numDeletedDocs() will adjust as deletions get merged away. Try it and see.
-- Ian. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Deepak Shakya <just...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
