On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, does it matter that we are also updates to documents at > various times? Do the deleted documents get removed when doing a > merge or does that only get done on an optimize?
Yes, any merge removes documents that have been marked as deleted (from the segments involved in the merge). Optimize can still make sense, but more often in scenarios where documents are updated infrequently. -Yonik lucenerevolution.com - Lucene/Solr Open Source Search Conference. Boston May 7-10