Skip data should be inlined into the postings lists
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Key: LUCENE-2962
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2962
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Index
Reporter: Michael McCandless
Today, we store all skip data as a separate blob at the end of a given term's
postings (if that term occurs in enough docs to warrant skip data).
But this adds overhead during decoding -- we have to seek to a different place
for the initial load, we have to init separate readers, we have to seek again
while using the lower levels of the skip data, etc. Also, we have to fully
decode all skip information even if we are not going to use it (eg if I only
want docIDs, I still must decode position offset and lastPayloadLength).
If instead we interleaved skip data into the postings file, we could keep it
local, and "private" to each file that needs skipping. This should make it
least costly to init and then use the skip data, which'd be a good perf gain
for eg PhraseQuery, AndQuery.
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