No, it doesn't affect facet counts, grouping, or any of that stuff. After all, facets and grouping are only calculated for documents that satisfy a query, and deleted documents are, by definition, excluded from "satisfying a query".
There are some subtle issues in scoring that can be affected, but you'll rarely care about that. And the "extra" information is purged over time. When segment merges happen, the data associated with deleted documents is removed from the segments being merge (which, in effect, is what you force with an optimize).. BTW, optimizing is rarely required, usually people only optimize when an index is pretty static, that is more toward the write-once end of the spectrum. Best Erick On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Sohail Aboobaker <sabooba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Eric, > > This is indeed what we are seeing. I hope we can just ignore the > frequencies. Does it in any way effect facet counts for such records? > > Sohail
