ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/10/2008 02:22:45 PM: > In the FAQ's it says that you have to do a manual incremental update: > > How do I update a document or a set of documents that are already indexed? > > > > There is no direct update procedure in Lucene. To update an index > > incrementally you must first *delete* the documents that were updated, and > > *then re-add* them to the index. > > > > How do I determine the existing document that matches the document I am > updating?
Most applications of this sort include a unique identifier for a document, so that it is easy to delete the document (by issuing a query on the identifier)