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Uwe Schindler updated LUCENE-2142:
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Attachment: (was: LUCENE-2142-fix.patch)
> FieldCache.getStringIndex should not throw exception if term count exceeds
> doc count
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> Key: LUCENE-2142
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2142
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.9.3, 3.0.2, 3.1, 4.0
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> Attachments: LUCENE-2142-fix-3x.patch, LUCENE-2142-fix-trunk.patch
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> Spinoff of LUCENE-2133/LUCENE-831.
> Currently FieldCache cannot handle more than one value per field.
> We may someday want to fix that... but until that day:
> FieldCache.getStringIndex currently does a simplistic check to try to
> catch when you've accidentally allowed more than one term per field,
> by testing if the number of unique terms exceeds the number of
> documents.
> The problem is, this is not a perfect check, in that it allows false
> negatives (you could have more than one term per field for some docs
> and the check won't catch you).
> Further, the exception thrown is the unchecked RuntimeException.
> So this means... you could happily think all is good, until some day,
> well into production, once you've updated enough docs, suddenly the
> check will catch you and throw an unhandled exception, stopping all
> searches [that need to sort by this string field] in their tracks.
> It's not gracefully degrading.
> I think we should simply remove the test, ie, if you have more terms
> than docs then the terms simply overwrite one another.
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