Delete documents by field value

Marks for deletion every document whose field equals the given value(s), using a field == value expression. Deletions take effect after tnt_commit(). For reliable deletion the field should be an exact field: a numeric/date field, or a text field created with stemmer = "raw".

Usage

tnt_delete(idx, condition)

Arguments

idx

A tnt_index.

condition

An expression of the form field == value. value may be a vector, deleting all matching documents.

Value

The tnt_index, invisibly.

See also

tnt_update()

Examples

sch <- tnt_schema(id = tnt_i64(), body = tnt_text(stemmer = "english"))
idx <- tnt_index(schema = sch)
tnt_add(idx, data.frame(id = 1:3, body = c("a", "b", "c"))) |> tnt_commit()
tnt_delete(idx, id == 2) |> tnt_commit()
tnt_num_docs(idx)
#> [1] 2