Try commit with expungeDeletes="true" I am not sure if it will merge old segments that have deleted documents.
In the worst case you can 'optimize' your index which should take care of removing deleted document On Oct 27, 2016 4:20 AM, "Arkadi Colson" <ark...@smartbit.be> wrote: > Hi > > As you can see in the screenshot above in the oldest segments there are a > lot of deletions. In total the shard has about 26% deletions. How can I get > rid of them so the index will be smaller again? > Can this only be done with an optimize or does it also depend on the merge > policy? If it also depends also on the merge policy which one should I > choose then? > > Thanks! > > BR, > Arkadi >
