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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-5063:
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bq. Maybe we should do something about the Bytes/Shorts though here...
Given that we don't even have numeric support (they are just encoded/decoded as
strings) for these types, maybe we should just remove or deprecate them?
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+1
> Allow GrowableWriter to store negative values
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>
> Key: LUCENE-5063
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5063
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Assignee: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 4.4
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> Attachments: LUCENE-5063.patch
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> For some use-cases, it would be convenient to be able to store negative
> values in a GrowableWriter, for example to use it in FieldCache: The first
> term is the minimum value and one could use a GrowableWriter to store deltas
> between this minimum value and the current value. (The need for negative
> values comes from the fact that maxValue - minValue might be larger than
> Long.MAX_VALUE.)
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