Matt, I'm also having this problem. In my application I may get an update for a document in the index that needs to be added. I delete the existing document, add the new document with the changes, and if you try to search for it, you can't find it. *Sometimes* if you get another document that needs changing and add it, the previously changed document will then show up, but not the one you just added. This makes me think that it's an open file problem. I've check all of my code, and that doesn't appear to be the case. I also did the "open and optimize" trick, and it makes all updates available for me as well. However, I may get a group of twenty or so updates in one group (although my program can't see they are in a group, it only sees the individual "add document" events) which means that I must optimize after each addition to the index. This gets expensive. I'm continuing to investigate this, and would appreciate you passing on anything you find.
Cheers, Tom Eskridge > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Segments not merging on delete > > > Thanks for your response. > > I tried closing the reader before opening the writer with no change, the > index still grows and doesn't merge. > > I think an important point here might be that I'm > adding/re-adding documents > in bulk, i.e. I iterate through files in a directory adding each > document in > turn according to the code in my previous e-mail. I tried adding > reader.optimize() after writer.addDocument() with no effect however if I > open a new reader after all the documents have been added and then call > .optimize() as below the index merges correctly. I.e. the > following code is > called after all documents have been added. Why does .optimize() work in > this location but not when I optmize after adding each document? > > // optimize the index > FSDirectory fsd = FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexPath, false); > IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(fsd, new MyAnalyzer(), false); > writer.optimize(); > writer.close(); > > Thanks, > Matt. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 October 2001 15:45 > To: 'Matt Read'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Segments not merging on delete > > > I'm not sure if this is the cause of your problems, but when you're doing > deletions you need to close the reader before you open a writer, otherwise > deletions can be lost. You're claiming that additions are lost, but could > it really be that it is the deletions which have been lost? Try > closing the > reader before you open the writer and tell me if that helps. > > Doug > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:35 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: FW: Segments not merging on delete > > > > > > Hi, I'm having some problems with segments failing to merge > > when deleting > > documents from the index. I've followed the recommendations > > in the FAQ for > > avoiding a complete index rebuild when adding a new document, i.e. I'm > > deleting the document from the index and the re-adding it. > > The index however > > is growing even if I just replace the same document > > repeatedly. And although > > the reader.numDocs() method returns the correct value the > > reader.docFreq() > > for each term is increasing. > > > > I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. > > > > When I index a document, I have this code: > > > > // check if it's already there and if it is, delete it > > fsd = FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexPath, false); > > reader = IndexReader.open(fsd); > > Term t = new Term("original_path", f.getPath()); > > if (reader.delete(t) > 0) { > > out.println("This file was already in the index, > > replacing it.<br>"); > > } > > > > // add document to index > > writer = new IndexWriter(indexPath, new MyAnalyzer(), false); > > Document doc = new Document(); > > doc.add(Field.Keyword("original_path", f.getPath())); > > doc.add(Field.Text("filename", f.getName())); > > doc.add(Field.Text("description", "a description")); > > writer.addDocument(doc); > > > > // clean up > > fsd.close(); > > reader.close(); > > writer.close(); > > > > I then have a class to examine the documents in the index. > > When I first add > > a document it appears correctly, however as I re-add (delete then add > > documents as above), the reader.isDeleted() flag remains set > > for each of the > > re-added documents which would be ok assuming segments have > > not been merged > > yet but the re-added documents do not appear anywhere in the > > reader.documents(i) collection. The code to examine is as follows: > > > > fsd = FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexPath, false); > > reader = IndexReader.open(fsd); > > > > // show document details > > for (int i = 0; i < reader.numDocs(); i ++) { > > if (!reader.isDeleted(i)) { > > Document d = reader.document(i); > > for (Enumeration e = d.fields(); > > e.hasMoreElements() ;) { > > Field f = (Field) e.nextElement(); > > out.println(f.toString() + ": " + > > f.name() + "=" + f.stringValue() + > > "<br>"); > > } > > } > > } > > > > // clean up > > fsd.close(); > > reader.close(); > > writer.close(); > > >
