How about opening an issue?  This way someone else can come along and
pick up the torch...

Mike

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Andrzej Bialecki <a...@getopt.org> wrote:
> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>>
>> Michael McCandless wrote:
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> I guess we'd add a Fieldable.setOmitPositions?  And then save that in
>>> FieldInfos, and fix the postings writing/reading to respect it?  Ie,
>>> we can just change the index format.  Encoding as negative numbers
>>
>> Yes, that's what I had in mind. I was a bit shy of bumping the format
>> version, but likely there will be other changes that we can put under the
>> same next version of the format.
>>
>>> isn't great because the termFreq is written as a vInt, which consumes
>>> 5 bytes to encode any negative number.  Wanna cough up a patch?
>>
>> Heh .. that's the right term for it, I haven't looked at the details of
>> oal.index.* since 2.4-ish or so ... we'll see ;)
>
> Ehh, sorry - I think I'll give up for now, after looking at the combinatoric
> increase in the number of arguments to various indexing classes ...
>
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