Ouch! I certainly did not mean to sound snippy. But perhaps it did, at least to some people. I'll try to be even more PC in the future.
I am glad the problem was resolved in the end. ---- Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 23 March 2016 at 10:16, Robert Brown <r...@intelcompute.com> wrote: > "why do you care? just do this ..." > > I see this a lot on mailing lists these days, it's usually a learning > curve/task/question. I know I fall into these types of questions/tasks > regularly. > > Which usually leads to "don't tell me my approach is wrong, just explain > what's going on, and why", or "just answer the straight-forward question I > asked in first place.". > > Sorry for rambling, this just sounded familiar... > > :) > > > > > On 22/03/16 22:50, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> >> Why do you care? >> >> The difference between Q and FQ are the scoring. For delete, you >> delete all of them regardless of scoring and there is no difference. >> Just chuck them all into Q. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> ---- >> Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: >> http://www.solr-start.com/ >> >> >> On 23 March 2016 at 06:07, Paul Hoffman <p...@flo.org> wrote: >>> >>> I've been struggling to find the right syntax for deleting by query >>> using JSON, where the query includes an fq parameter. >>> >>> I know how to delete *all* documents, but how would I delete only >>> documents with field doctype = "cres"? I have tried the following along >>> with a number of variations, all to no avail: >>> >>> $ curl -s -d @- >>> 'http://localhost:8983/solr/blacklight-core/update?wt=json' <<EOS >>> { >>> "delete": { "query": "doctype:cres" } >>> } >>> EOS >>> >>> I can identify the documents like this: >>> >>> curl -s >>> 'http://localhost:8983/solr/blacklight-core/select?q=&fq=doctype%3Acres&wt=json&fl=id' >>> >>> It seems like such a simple thing, but I haven't found any examples that >>> use an fq. Could someone post an example? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Paul. >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Hoffman <p...@flo.org> >>> Systems Librarian >>> Fenway Libraries Online >>> c/o Wentworth Institute of Technology >>> 550 Huntington Ave. >>> Boston, MA 02115 >>> (617) 442-2384 (FLO main number) > >
