So, I was not thinking that much different. :-] Giulio Cesare
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:37:11 +0200, Christoph Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giulio Cesare Solaroli wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to submit a "think different" approach to this problem > > for evaluation for you developers. > > > > Would it be possible to just mark the relevant documents as "deleted" > > (instead of deleting them altogether) with an IndexWriter used for > > inserting new documents? > > > > "marking" a document as deleted would leave it on the index, but it > > would not include it in any result set. > > > > At a later time, an IndexReader could be opened to really delete all > > "marked" documents. > > > > Does this approach is compatible with Lucene architecture? > > Itīs already done in a quite similar fashion, but the roles of > IndexReader and IndexWriter are exchanged. If you call delete with > an IndexReader, the document(s) are only marked as deleted. You might > even call undeletAll to undo the deletion. Itīs only with the next > explicit optimize or implicit merge from an IndexWriter that the > document(s) are irreversibly deleted. > > Christoph > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
