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David Smiley commented on SOLR-5093:
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I guess I change my mind; the veto arguments are good.
Mikhail, I like your idea on making a sub-clause be filter-cache'able. But I
don't think it should be a separate query parser because it's an orthogonal
issue to how the query is parsed. Perhaps a special local-param
filterCache=true. Your example would become:
{noformat}
q=bee:blah OR {! filterCache=true}foo:bar OR {! filterCache=true}foo:bar
{noformat}
A key thing to document would not only be that this clause would be cached in
the filter-cache, but also that it would constant-score.
> Rewrite field:* to use the filter cache
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>
> Key: SOLR-5093
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5093
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: query parsers
> Reporter: David Smiley
>
> Sometimes people writes a query including something like {{field:*}} which
> matches all documents that have an indexed value in that field. That can be
> particularly expensive for tokenized text, numeric, and spatial fields. The
> expert advise is to index a separate boolean field that is used in place of
> these query clauses, but that's annoying to do and it can take users a while
> to realize that's what they need to do.
> I propose that Solr's query parser rewrite such queries to return a query
> backed by Solr's filter cache. The underlying query happens once (and it's
> slow this time) and then it's cached after which it's super-fast to reuse.
> Unfortunately Solr's filter cache is currently index global, not per-segment;
> that's being handled in a separate issue.
> Related to this, it may be worth considering if Solr should behind the scenes
> index a field that records which fields have indexed values, and then it
> could use this indexed data to power these queries so they are always fast to
> execute. Likewise, {{\[\* TO \*\]}} open-ended range queries could similarly
> use this.
> For an example of how a user bumped into this, see:
> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Performance-question-on-Spatial-Search-tt4081150.html
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