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Mark Harwood updated LUCENE-6066:
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    Attachment:     (was: LUCENE-PQRemoveV1.patch)

> New "remove" method in PriorityQueue
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>                 Key: LUCENE-6066
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6066
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/query/scoring
>            Reporter: Mark Harwood
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 5.0
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>         Attachments: LUCENE-PQRemoveV2.patch
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> It would be useful to be able to remove existing elements from a 
> PriorityQueue. 
> The proposal is that a linear scan is performed to find the element being 
> removed and then the end element in heap[size] is swapped into this position 
> to perform the delete. The method downHeap() is then called to shuffle the 
> replacement element back down the array but the existing downHeap method must 
> be modified to allow picking up an entry from any point in the array rather 
> than always assuming the first element (which is its only current mode of 
> operation).
> A working javascript model of the proposal with animation is available here: 
> http://jsfiddle.net/grcmquf2/22/ 
> In tests the modified version of "downHeap" produces the same results as the 
> existing impl but adds the ability to push down from any point.
> An example use case that requires remove is where a client doesn't want more 
> than N matches for any given key (e.g. no more than 5 products from any one 
> retailer in a marketplace). In these circumstances a document that was 
> previously thought of as competitive has to be removed from the final PQ and 
> replaced with another doc (eg a retailer who already has 5 matches in the PQ 
> receives a 6th match which is better than his previous ones). This particular 
> process is managed by a special "DiversifyingPriorityQueue" which wraps the 
> main PriorityQueue and could be contributed as part of another issue if there 
> is interest in that. 



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