Thanks everyone. Adding the _version_ field in the schema worked. Deleting the data directory works for me, but was not sure why deleting using curl was not working.
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Michael Della Bitta < michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote: > Rohit: > > If it's easy, the easiest thing to do is to turn off your servlet > container, rm -r * inside of the data directory, and then restart the > container. > > Michael Della Bitta > > ------------------------------------------------ > Appinions | 18 East 41st St., Suite 1806 | New York, NY 10017 > www.appinions.com > Where Influence Isn’t a Game > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> > wrote: > > Check to make sure that you are not stumbling into SOLR-3432: > "deleteByQuery > > silently ignored if updateLog is enabled, but {{_version_}} field does > not > > exist in schema". > > > > See: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3432 > > > > This could happen if you kept the new 4.0 solrconfig.xml, but copied in > your > > pre-4.0 schema.xml. > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Rohit Harchandani > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 12:48 PM > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Delete all documents in the index > > > > > > Hi, > > I am having difficulty deleting documents from the index using curl. The > > urls i tried were: > > curl "http://localhost:9020/solr/core1/update/?stream.body= > > <delete><query>*:*</query></delete>&commit=true" > > curl "http://localhost:9020/solr/core1/update/?commit=true" -H > > "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>id:[* TO > > *]</query></delete>' > > curl "http://localhost:9020/solr/core1/update/?commit=true" -H > > "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary > '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>' > > I also tried: > > curl " > > > http://localhost:9020/solr/core1/update/?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E&commit=true > > " > > as suggested on some forums. I get a response with status=0 in all cases, > > but none of the above seem to work. > > When I run > > curl "http://localhost:9020/solr/core1/select?q=*:*&rows=0&wt=xml" > > I still get a value for "numFound". > > > > I am currently using solr 4.0 beta version. > > > > Thanks for your help in advance. > > Regards, > > Rohit >