Joe,

>Hi,
>
>I am using Lucene for indexing a relatively large article based system where articles 
>change from time to time so i have to reindex them. reindexing had the effekt that a 
>query would return the hit for a file multiple times (according to the number of 
>updates.
>
>The only solution to that problem I found was to delete the file to be updated before 
>indexing it again. Is there another possibility ?

You can add a counter or a date to your documents, in the same field
as your document identifier or in another field. This allows more flexibility
in deleting old documents, but you'll have to design a condition
to remove old docs yourself.

Regards,
Ype

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