RE: How to get rid of unused fields?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_lucene@...]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:39 AM
> To: java-user@...
> Subject: Re: How to get rid of unused fields?
>
>
> : After deleting documents from the index it can happen that fields become
> : unused (i.e. no document has this field anymore). And
> : IndexReader.getFieldNames() still returns these unused fields, even
> : after optimizing the index. Is there any chance to get rid of these
> : unused fields?
>
> that's odd ... i'm 99% sure that should work (optimizng should perge
> unused fields).
>
> what version of Lucene are you using?  (if you're on the trunk it might be
> a bug introduced recently with some of the indexing changes)
>
> Can you post some test code demonstrating the problem?
>
>
>
> -Hoss
>
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