I cant answer you that. But even if it is feasible, maybe the answer is
that noone really needed it.
2012/10/22 Shaya Potter <spot...@gmail.com>
> I can understand that (i.e. why in place wont work), but the Q would be,
> why one can't read in a document, add() or removeField() that document and
> then updateDocument() that document.
>
>
> On 10/22/2012 03:43 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis wrote:
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>> I am not that familiar with Lucene, so my answer may be a bit off.
>>
>> Search on the internet about log structured storage. There you will find
>> why rewriting an entry is better than updating an existing entry.
>>
>> Leveldb/cassandra/bigTable use it. maybe search these terms as well.
>>
>> 2012/10/22 Shaya Potter <spot...@gmail.com>
>>
>> so there are lots of Qs that are asked about wanting to modify a lucene
>>> document (i.e. remove fields, add fields....) but are told that one needs
>>> to reindex.
>>>
>>> No one ever answers the technical Q of why this is, and I'm interested in
>>> that. presumambly because documents aren't stored as documents or even
>>> in
>>> any form that could be reassembled into a document, but I'm interested in
>>> what the actual answer is.
>>>
>>> thanks.
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