Re: How does delete work?

[Doug Cutting]

Clemens Marschner wrote:

So what if documents are deleted in the meantime? Then the recursive merge
can't determine the X segments with the same size.

If you read my previous message you'll find the answer:

Doug Cutting wrote:
> It's actually a little more complicated than that, since (among other
> reasons) after docuuments are deleted a segment's size will no longer
> be exactly a power of the mergeFactor.

If you want the gory details, look at IndexWriter.java. Or just set IndexReader.infoStream to System.out, then add and delete documents and watch what happens.

Doug


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