Comments on: Select/delete all items in Solr http://borort.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/selectdelete-all-items-in-solr/ The sky's the limit... Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:47:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hoss http://borort.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/selectdelete-all-items-in-solr/#comment-96 Hoss Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:29:22 +0000 http://borort.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/selectdelete-all-items-in-solr/#comment-96 You can find all docs (with or without a uniqueKey field) using *:* Likewise you can delete all docs using that query as well ... but if your index is particularly huge it can be more efficient in Solr 1.2 to just stop solr, rm -r the index directory and start solr again. in Solr 1.3, *:* will be be as efficient as rm'ing the directory yourself, but without needing to start/stop. You can find all docs (with or without a uniqueKey field) using *:*

Likewise you can delete all docs using that query as well … but if your index is particularly huge it can be more efficient in Solr 1.2 to just stop solr, rm -r the index directory and start solr again.

in Solr 1.3, *:* will be be as efficient as rm’ing the directory yourself, but without needing to start/stop.

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