I think it would be cool if someone could mention this in the change log for 1.3, since I think it's great news and I would have to have missed it. (I don't see it in the log right now.)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages) explains that >> "delete by id is much more efficient than delete by query". Does this >> patch mean this is no longer true? > > Pretty much. > >> That is, is delete by query now >> basically as fast as delete by ID? > > Almost. There will still be a little overhead (query parsing, > rewriting, etc), but the huge expense of switching from writer to > reader for deleteByQuery is now gone. > > -Yonik >
