Re: Unexpected returning false from IndexWriter.tryDeleteDocument

2014-01-04 Thread Michael McCandless
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Derek Lewis wrote: > Sorry for the delay responding. Holidays and all that. :) No problem. > The retry approach did work, our process finished in the end. At some > point, I suppose we'll just live with the chance this might happen and dump > a bunch of exceptio

Re: TieredMergePolicy and Doc ordering

2014-01-04 Thread Michael McCandless
Lucene's internal docIDs will change their order, but often this doesn't matter and you won't see it. E.g. if you search and you're sorting by your ID field then Lucene's docID assignments has no effect. It's only for tie-breaks where Lucene falls back to its docID to break the tie. Mike McCandl