Hi I think sorting and searching on docvalues can benefit from similar optimizations like impacts do when scoring is used. By storing the minimum and maximum value for blocks of docvalues it would be possible to skip over sets of documents that don't contain any values in the relevant range.
When sorting a large resultset this could be used to skip over parts of the index once the desired number of documents is found and be narrowed down further step by step. This could also be used to improve performance of docvalue based range queries used in conjunctions by only looking at blocks of documents that actually contain values in the correct range. Currently this is just an idea i had when i looked at the impact implementation and i wanted get your opinion on this before i spend time building a proof of concept implementation. -- ------------------------------ Daniel Penning / Senior Product Developer T.: +49 (0)30 5900113-83 / F.: +49 (0)30 5900113-99 E-Mail: d.penn...@stroeermediabrands.de Web: www.stroeermediabrands.de Ströer Media Brands AG, Torstraße 49, 10119 Berlin-Mitte Vorstand: Marc Schmitz Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 126603 B
