Solr delete not working for some reason

Question

Just trying to delete all the documents, and did this:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E 

then committed:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Ccommit/%3E 

I get the response:

<lst name="responseHeader"> <int name="status">0</int> <int name="QTime">17</int> </lst> </response> 

But when I search I still get results back.

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

Not sure if it matters but you might encode the : too

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*%3A*%3C%2Fquery%3E%3C%2Fdelete%3E 

Another thing to try is to use the POST method (the preferred way to call update):

curl http://localhost:8983/solr/update?commit=true -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>' 

Answer 2

I got stung with this one recently as well. Just remember that if you have updateLog is configured in solrconfig.xml, but there is no version field in the schema.xml

see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3432

I Spent a good hour on this one!!!