Hi Daniel,
Unless you have only a few documents and a small index, I don't think
never calling optimize is going to be a means you should rely upon.
What about if you reindexed the documents you are deleting, adding a
field <excludeFromSearch> with the value "true"? This would imply that
either
1) all fields are stored, so you may retrieve them from the original doc
and add them to the new one plus the exclusion field
2) or if a lot of fields are only indexed you'd need access to the
original source. (With limitations it is also possible to reconstruct a
field from indexed data only, but not generally recommendable)
During search, just add "NOT excludeFromSearch:true" to the query.
If you need to keep track of which versions belong together, you may
need to think about how you uniquely identify documents, how this
changes between versions, and if the update dates might be of any help.
Cheers
Rene
Am 16.03.2010 05:20, schrieb Daniel Noll:
Hi all.
I'm trying to implement a form of document deletion where the previous
versions are kept around forever ( a primitive form of versioning) but
excluded from the search results.
I notice that after calling IndexWriter.deleteDocuments, even if you
close and reopen the index, the documents are still accessible using
document(int) but are returned from queries, which is exactly the
behaviour I want. However, if I call optimize() they will obviously
be obliterated.
My question is: as long as I never call optimize() -- will the deleted
documents hang around forever, or will a merge due to adding the new
documents eventually cause them to be removed?
If they will be removed then I need some other way to avoid them being
returned. I was thinking of actually *not* deleting them, but
maintaining a giant filter - I could store this filter on disk but
it's going to be pretty large even if I use a BitSet. :-( Is there
any other way to go about it?
Daniel
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