On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:15 AM, alessandro.benedetti <a.benede...@sease.io> wrote: > "Lucene/Solr doesn't actually delete documents when you delete them, it > just marks them as deleted. I'm pretty sure that the difference between > docCount and maxDoc is deleted documents. Maybe I don't understand what > I'm talking about, but that is the best I can come up with. " > > Thanks Shawn, yes, that is correct and I was aware of it. > I was curious of another difference : > I think we confirmed that docCount is local to the field ( thanks Yonik for > that) so : > > docCount(index,field1)= # of documents in the index that currently have > value(s) for field1 > > My question is : > > maxDocs(index,field1)= max # of documents in the index that had value(s) for > field1 > > OR > > maxDocs(index)= max # of documents that appeared in the index ( field > independent)
The latter. I imagine that's why docCount was introduced (to avoid changing the meaning of an existing term). FWIW, the scoring change was made in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6711 for Lucene/Solr 6.0 -Yonik
