Re: Adding exclude path when indexing

[Stephan Hegel <stephan hegel gmx de>]

Hi,

D Bera wrote:
> Arghh... when I added the code to get the total number of matches I
> didnt realize it would bite back this way :-). You are right, the
> ignored document is not immediately removed from the index (that would
> require recrawling the whole tree to figure out what should be
> ignored) but silently removed from search results. 
I'm wondering why it requires recrawling the whole tree. I've thought
that the indexer information is stored in a sql database and the entries
to be removed could be easily detected just by querying for the exclude
path in this this database ?

Well, I don't know the structure of the tables ...

Regards,
  Stephan.