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John Wang commented on LUCENE-1612:
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Excellent point Michael! What do you suggest on how to move forward with this?
> expose lastDocId in the posting from the TermEnum API
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> Key: LUCENE-1612
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1612
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Affects Versions: 2.4
> Reporter: John Wang
> Attachments: lucene-1612-patch.txt
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> We currently have on the TermEnum api: docFreq() which gives the number docs
> in the posting.
> It would be good to also have the max docid in the posting. That information
> is useful when construction a custom DocIdSet, .e.g determine sparseness of
> the doc list to decide whether or not to use a BitSet.
> I have written a patch to do this, the problem with it is the TermInfosWriter
> encodes values in VInt/VLong, there is very little flexibility to add in
> lastDocId while making the index backward compatible. (If simple int is used
> for say, docFreq, a bit can be used to flag reading of a new piece of
> information)
> output.writeVInt(ti.docFreq); // write doc freq
> output.writeVLong(ti.freqPointer - lastTi.freqPointer); // write pointers
> output.writeVLong(ti.proxPointer - lastTi.proxPointer);
> Anyway, patch is attached with:TestSegmentTermEnum modified to test this.
> TestBackwardsCompatibility fails due to reasons described above.
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