Are you sure there is not a single criteria by which these documents are selected for deletion? Surely they're not 1000 random documents? Perhaps the criteria can not be described by the fields you're currently indexing, but that's just a matter of adding the necessary index fields.
E.g. <delete><query>date:[20080101 TO 20080330]</query></delete> ~ Frans On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Is there any good way to do a bulk delete of several documents? > I have more than 1000 documents to delete... and I don't want to send N > request with <delete><id>X</id></delete>. > Doing a query delete isn't a good solution because I have a maximum amount > of terms that I can use in the query. For example: > <delete><query>id:(X1 OR X2 OR .... OR Xn)</query></delete> where n could be > more than 1000 > > Thanks, > > Jonathan >
