Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 99968 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2002 18:39:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 2002 18:39:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 13786 invoked by uid 97); 4 Nov 2002 18:40:32 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 13755 invoked by uid 97); 4 Nov 2002 18:40:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Users List" Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 13743 invoked by uid 98); 4 Nov 2002 18:40:30 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Message-ID: <3DC6BF28.9020101@lucene.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:40:40 -0800 From: Doug Cutting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Deleting fields from a Document References: <103605022101@202.157.159.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Kelvin Tan wrote: > Document maintains a linked list of Fields. It would be not be > difficult to delete a random Field, albeit a little inefficient. That would delete it from the in-memory representation, but, once it has been indexed, there is no easy way to remove a field value from a document other than to delete the document and re-add it. Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: