Do you have a "_version_" field in your schema. I believe SOLR 4.0 Beta requires that field.
Ravi Kiran Bhaskar On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Andrew Groh <andrew.g...@jumptap.com> wrote: > I cannot seem to get delete by query working in my simple setup in Solr 4.0 > beta. > > I have a single collection and I want to delete old documents from it. There > is a single solr node in the config (no replication, not distributed). This > is something that I previously did in Solr 3.x > > My collection is called dine, so I do: > > curl "http://localhost:8080/solr/dine/update"; -s -H 'Content-type:text/xml; > charset=utf-8' -d "<delete><query>timestamp_dt:[2012-09-01T00:00:00Z TO > 2012-09-27T00:00:00Z]</query></delete>" > > and then a commit. > > The problem is that the documents are not delete. When I run the same query > in the admin page, it still returns documents. > > I walked through the code and find the code in > DistributedUpdateProcessor::doDeleteByQuery to be suspicious. > > Specifically, vinfo is not null, but I have no version field, so > versionsStored is false. > > So it gets to line 786, which looks like: > if (versionsStored) { > > That then skips to line 813 (the finally clause) skipping all calls to > doLocalDelete > > Now, I do confess I don't understand exactly how this code should work. > However, in the add code, the check for versionsStored does not skip the call > to doLocalAdd. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. > > Andrew > > >
