Hi John, In case of deletions, it is just a delayed delete. In other words, the doc is just marked as deleted in the deletable file, leaving a void in the numbering of docs. The actual shifting of document ids happens only when you optimize the index. In that case the deletables file is used to physically remove the docs from the index.
Hope that clears the doubt :) -- Anshum Gupta Naukri Labs! On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:24 AM, John Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys (and Gals), > > > > A question on index deletions, what exactly happens to the Lucene document > numbers in an index when a document is deleted? Let's say I have a 5 doc > index. > > > > Document # Doc > > 0 doc1 > > 1 doc2 > > 2 doc3 > > 3 doc4 > > 4 doc5 > > > > If doc 2 is deleted, is this what I'm left with? > > > > Document # Doc > > 0 doc1 > > 1 doc2 > > 2 doc4 > > 3 doc5 > > > > This is my assumption. If not, what DOES happen? > > > > TIA > > > > John G. > > > > > > > > -- -- The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw............
