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Adrien Grand commented on LUCENE-7283:
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On the other hand, doc values have been there for 4 years now. Like Solr,
Elasticsearch has some history with FieldCache which makes the removal take
time. But it is on the way out: the upcoming release based on Lucene 6 will
only allow it on text fields, and as an opt-in (disabled by default) and all
other fields (numerics, keywords, etc.) will enforce usage of doc values for
sorting or faceting. And I truly hope that we can entirely get rid of it when
we upgrade to Lucene 7. Now that we have had doc values for 4 years, I think
it's really time to get rid of FieldCache. Apps that truly need it for a bit
longer for backward compatibility guarantees can still fork the code like Mike
suggested.
> Move SlowCompositeReaderWrapper and uninverting package to solr sources
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> Key: LUCENE-7283
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7283
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Fix For: 6.1, master (7.0)
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> Attachments: LUCENE-7283.patch
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> Spinoff from LUCENE-6766, where we fixed index-time sorting to have first
> class support in Lucene's ore, and no longer use
> {{SlowCompositeReaderWrapper}}.
> This is a dangerous, long living class, that tries to pretend a set of N
> segments is actually just a single segment. It's a leaky abstraction, has
> poor performance, and puts undue pressure on the APIs of new Lucene features
> to try to keep up this illusion.
> With LUCENE-6766, finally all usage of this class (except for
> {{UninvertedReader}} tests, which should maybe also move out?) has been
> removed from Lucene, so I think we should move it to Solr. This may also
> lead to a solution for LUCENE-7086 since e.g. the class could tap into solr's
> schema to "know" how to handle points fields properly.
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