Re: Deleting Fields

[Charlie Hull <ch...@flax.co.uk>]

On 30/05/2015 00:30, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> On 5/29/2015 5:08 PM, Joseph Obernberger wrote:
>> Hi All - I have a lot of fields to delete, but noticed that once I
>> started deleting them, I quickly ran out of heap space.  Is
>> delete-field a memory intensive operation?  Should I delete one field,
>> wait a while, then delete the next?
>
> I'm not aware of a way to delete a field.  I may have a different
> definition of what a field is than you do, though.
>
> Solr lets you delete entire documents, but deleting a field from the
> entire index would involve re-indexing every document in the index,
> excluding that field.
>
> Can you be more specific about exactly what you are doing, what you are
> seeing, and what you want to see instead?
>
> Also, please be aware of this:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#threadhijack
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
Here's a rather old post on how we did something similar:
http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2011/06/24/how-to-remove-a-stored-field-in-lucene/

Cheers

Charlie

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