I've got a versioning content system where I want to replace documents in a lucene repository. To do so, according to the FAQ and the mailing list archives, I need to open an IndexReader, look for the document in question, delete it via the IndexReader, and then add it.
This shouldn't replace the document per se - it should, however, free the index entry (for reuse by documents added later) as I understand it. It should also mark the document as deleted. A query still may return the document (again, as I understand it), requiring a filter to make sure deleted documents aren't returned.
Searches results do not include deleted documents, so you do not need to explicitly filter for them. After a document is deleted, the space consumed by it may not be reclaimed for a while, and some term statistics may not be updated immediately, but Lucene never returns references deleted documents.
Doug
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