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Shai Erera commented on LUCENE-8060:
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What if we conceptually remove {{TopDocs.totalHits}} and if users require that,
they can chain their Collector with {{TotalHitCountCollector}}? We can also add
that boolean as a sugar to {{IndexSearcher.search()}} API.
If we're OK w/ removing {{TopDocs.totalHits}}, and users getting a compilation
error (that's easy to fix), then that's an easy option/change. Or... we
deprecate it, but keep the simple IndexSearcher.search() APIs still compute it
(by chaining this collector), and let users who'd like to optimize use the
search() API which takes a Collector.
Just a thought...
> Require users to tell us whether they need total hit counts
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> Key: LUCENE-8060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8060
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: master (8.0)
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> We are getting optimizations when hit counts are not required (sorted
> indexes, MAXSCORE, short-circuiting of phrase queries) but our users won't
> benefit from them unless we disable exact hit counts by default or we require
> them to tell us whether hit counts are required.
> I think making hit counts approximate by default is going to be a bit trappy,
> so I'm rather leaning towards requiring users to tell us explicitly whether
> they need total hit counts. I can think of two ways to do that: either by
> passing a boolean to the IndexSearcher constructor or by adding a boolean to
> all methods that produce TopDocs instances. I like the latter better but I'm
> open to discussion or other ideas?
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