Hi Otis:
Thanks for you reply.
I am looking for more of an API call than a tool. e.g.
IndexWriter.finalizeDelete()
If I implement this, how would I go about submitting a patch?
thanks
-John
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:24:12 -0800 (PST), Otis Gospodnetic
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> Hello John,
>
> I believe you didn't get any replies to this. What you are describing
> cannot be done using the public, but maaay (no source code on this
> machine, so I can't double-check that) be doable if you use some of the
> 'internal' methods.
>
> I don't have the need for this, but others might, so it may be worth
> developing a tool that purges Documents marked as deleted without the
> expensive segment merging, iff that is possible. If you put this tool
> under the approprite org.apache.lucene... package, you'll get access to
> 'internal' methods, of course. If you end up creating this, we could
> stick it in the Sandbox, where we should really create a new section
> for handy command-line tools that manipulate the index.
>
> Otis
>
>
>
>
> --- John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Is there a way to finalize delete, e.g. actually remove them from
> > the segments and make sure the docIDs are contiguous again.
> >
> > The only explicit way to do this is by calling
> > IndexWriter.optmize(). But this call does a lot more (also merges all
> > the segments), hence is very expensive. Is there a way to simply just
> > finalize the deletes without having to merge all the segments?
> >
> > If not, I'd be glad to submit an implementation of this feature
> > if
> > the Lucene devs agree this is useful.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -John
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