Enable the clear documents optimization that wasn't working due to a bug

src/subcommand/serve.rs

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Instant;
 
+use anyhow::anyhow;
 use askama_warp::Template;
 use flate2::read::GzDecoder;
 use futures::stream;
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ pub fn run(opt: Opt) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                     }
                 },
                 UpdateMeta::DocumentsAdditionFromPath { path: _ } => {
-                    todo!()
+                    Err(anyhow!("indexing from a file is not supported yet"))
                 }
             };
 

src/update/delete_documents.rs

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use fst::{IntoStreamer, Streamer};
 use roaring::RoaringBitmap;
 
 use crate::{Index, BEU32};
+use super::ClearDocuments;
 
 pub struct DeleteDocuments<'t, 'u, 'i> {
     wtxn: &'t mut heed::RwTxn<'u>,
@@ -54,13 +55,15 @@ impl<'t, 'u, 'i> DeleteDocuments<'t, 'u, 'i> {
             return Ok(0);
         }
 
+        let current_documents_ids_len = documents_ids.len();
         documents_ids.intersect_with(&self.documents_ids);
         self.index.put_documents_ids(self.wtxn, &documents_ids)?;
 
-        // TODO we should be able to execute a ClearDocuments operation when the number of documents
-        //      to delete is exactly the number of documents in the database, however it seems that
-        //      clearing a database in LMDB requires a commit for it to be effective, we can't clear
-        //      and assume that the database is empty in the same wtxn or something.
+        // We can execute a ClearDocuments operation when the number of documents
+        // to delete is exactly the number of documents in the database.
+        if current_documents_ids_len == self.documents_ids.len() {
+            return ClearDocuments::new(self.wtxn, self.index).execute();
+        }
 
         let fields_ids_map = self.index.fields_ids_map(self.wtxn)?;
         let id_field = fields_ids_map.id("id").expect(r#"the field "id" to be present"#);

src/update/index_documents/mod.rs

@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ fn merge_into_lmdb_database(
         WriteMethod::Append => {
             let mut out_iter = database.iter_mut::<_, ByteSlice, ByteSlice>(wtxn)?;
             while let Some((k, v)) = in_iter.next()? {
-                out_iter.append(k, v).with_context(|| format!("writing {:?} into LMDB", k.as_bstr()))?;
+                out_iter.append(k, v).with_context(|| {
+                    format!("writing {:?} into LMDB", k.as_bstr())
+                })?;
             }
         },
         WriteMethod::GetMergePut => {
@@ -136,7 +138,9 @@ fn write_into_lmdb_database(
         WriteMethod::Append => {
             let mut out_iter = database.iter_mut::<_, ByteSlice, ByteSlice>(wtxn)?;
             while let Some((k, v)) = reader.next()? {
-                out_iter.append(k, v).with_context(|| format!("writing {:?} into LMDB", k.as_bstr()))?;
+                out_iter.append(k, v).with_context(|| {
+                    format!("writing {:?} into LMDB", k.as_bstr())
+                })?;
             }
         },
         WriteMethod::GetMergePut => {
@@ -408,6 +412,7 @@ impl<'t, 'u, 'i> IndexDocuments<'t, 'u, 'i> {
 
         // We merge the new documents ids with the existing ones.
         documents_ids.union_with(&new_documents_ids);
+        documents_ids.union_with(&replaced_documents_ids);
         self.index.put_documents_ids(self.wtxn, &documents_ids)?;
 
         debug!("Writing the docid word positions into LMDB on disk...");
@@ -438,7 +443,7 @@ impl<'t, 'u, 'i> IndexDocuments<'t, 'u, 'i> {
                         self.index.main,
                         content,
                         main_merge,
-                        write_method,
+                        WriteMethod::GetMergePut,
                     )?;
                 },
                 DatabaseType::WordDocids => {