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David Smiley commented on LUCENE-2529:
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I sympathize with your point of view Rob; arguably a position of < 0 is 
illogical and an error.  If the current behavior should stay then we can at 
least put a comment in the code here acknowledging the illogical nature of it.

How do you feel about committing my latest patch, with the addition of a 
suitable comment just mentioned?

> always apply position increment gap between values
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2529
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2529
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 2.9.3, 3.0.2, 3.1, 4.0
>         Environment: (I don't know which version to say this affects since 
> it's some quasi trunk release and the new versioning scheme confuses me.)
>            Reporter: David Smiley
>            Assignee: Koji Sekiguchi
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.1, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: 
> LUCENE-2529_always_apply_position_increment_gap_between_values.patch, 
> LUCENE-2529_nonsenseIncrements.patch, 
> LUCENE-2529_skip_posIncr_for_1st_token.patch, 
> LUCENE-2529_skip_posIncr_for_1st_token.patch, 
> LUCENE-2529_skip_posIncr_for_1st_token.patch, LUCENE-2529_test.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 1h
>  Remaining Estimate: 1h
>
> I'm doing some fancy stuff with span queries that is very sensitive to term 
> positions.  I discovered that the position increment gap on indexing is only 
> applied between values when there are existing terms indexed for the 
> document.  I suspect this logic wasn't deliberate, it's just how its always 
> been for no particular reason.  I think it should always apply the gap 
> between fields.  Reference DocInverterPerField.java line 82:
> if (fieldState.length > 0)
>           fieldState.position += 
> docState.analyzer.getPositionIncrementGap(fieldInfo.name);
> This is checking fieldState.length.  I think the condition should simply be:  
> if (i > 0).
> I don't think this change will affect anyone at all but it will certainly 
> help me.  Presently, I can either change this line in Lucene, or I can put in 
> a hack so that the first value for the document is some dummy value which is 
> wasteful.

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