I think you need to change indexReader.delete(k); to indexReader.delete(hits.id(k));
Dan -----Original Message----- From: Karthik N S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:47 PM To: LUCENE Subject: INDEXREADER + DELETE + LUCENE1.4.1 Hi Guy's Apologies............ There seems to be a bug unresolved [ Or may I be may be doing something wrong ] in IndexReader.delete(int docNum) Here is the Code indexSearcher = null; indexDirectory = null; indexReader = null; indexDirectory =FSDirectory.getDirectory("/root/MERGEDINDEX/MERGER_1",false); indexReader = IndexReader.open(indexDirectory); IndexReader.unlock(indexDirectory); indexSearcher = new IndexSearcher(indexReader); query = new TermQuery(new Term(fieldName, FiledValue)); hits = indexSearcher.search(query); if ( hits.length() > 0 ) { for(int k=0;k<=hits.length();k++) { PRINTDBG_.append("QUERY : " + query.toString() + "\n" + "FIELD NAME : " + fieldName + "\n" + "FIELD VALUE: " + FiledValue + "\n" + "TOTAL HITS : " + hits.length() + "\n" + "DELETING : " + k); indexReader.delete(k); } } indexReader.close(); indexSearcher.close(); indexDirectory.close(); System.out.printl(" Debugger : " +PRINTDBG_); indexReader = null; indexSearcher = null; indexDirectory = null; //optimization indexDirectory = FSDirectory.getDirectory(pathMergeIndex,false); IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexDirectory, analyzer, false); writer.mergeFactor = mergeFactorVal_; writer.maxMergeDocs = maxMergeDocsVal_; writer.optimize(); writer.close(); indexDirectory = null; writer = null; In spite of Using a new IndexReader for every Deletion of documents and Optimization's The 'indexReader.delete(k)' does not seems to work Configuration History a) 1 MergerIndex = 1000 subIndexes [ fieldName = KeyWord Field Type] b) O/s Windows c) Amd Processor e) Lucene 1.4.1 f) Jdk 1.4.2 Please Some body Suggest me For Alternates ........ WITH WARM REGARDS HAVE A NICE DAY [ N.S.KARTHIK] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]