On Apr 27, 2004, at 9:49 AM, Nader S. Henein wrote: > So if Alan wants to limit it to the first 100 he can't really use a > range > search unless he can guarantee that the index is optimized after > deletes, > but then if his deletion rounds are anything like mine ( every 2 mins) > then > optimizing it at each delete will make searching the index really slow. > Right? Well, if you know how many you've deleted, then a range would work :) (number of docs in index minus 100 minus number deleted = starting range for doc id) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: lucene-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org