IIRC you can also also simply stop the servlet container, delete the contents of the data directory by hand, then restart the container.
-Charlie On 8/20/07, Pieter Berkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using solr 1.2 the following command (followed by a commit / > optimize) should do the trick: > > <delete><query>*:*</query></delete> > > cheers, > Piete > > > On 21/08/07, Sundling, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > what is the best approach to clearing an index? > > > > The use case is that I'm doing some performance testing with various > > index sizes. In between indexing (embedded and soon HTTP/XML) I need to > > clear the index so I have a fresh start. > > > > What's the best approach, close the index and delete the files? Hack > > together some query that will match all documents and delete by query? > > Looking at the Lucene API it looks like they have the same functionality > > that is exposed already (delete by id or query). > > > > Paul Sundling > > > > >
