BigIntegerPoint

2021-02-26 Thread Michael Kleen 
Hello,

I am interested in using BigIntegerPoint. What is the reason that it is part of 
the sandbox ? Is it ready for use ?

Many thanks,

Michael



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Re: BigIntegerPoint

2021-02-27 Thread Michael Kleen 
Looking at TestBigIntegerPoint it seems to me that the core functionality of 
BigIntegerPoint
is working. Is there any reason you would advise me for not using it ? Is there 
anything
missing ?

> On 26. Feb 2021, at 22:14, Robert Muir  wrote:
> 
> It was added to the sandbox originally (along with InetAddressPoint for ip
> addresses) and just never graduated from there:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7043
> 
> The InetAddressPoint was moved to core because it seems pretty common that
> people want to do range queries on IP hosts and so on. So it got love.
> 
> Not many people need 128-bit range queries I suppose?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 1:25 PM Michael Kleen  wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am interested in using BigIntegerPoint. What is the reason that it is
>> part of the sandbox ? Is it ready for use ?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: BigIntegerPoint

2021-02-27 Thread Michael Kleen 
ok, thanks a lot for the clarification.

> On 27. Feb 2021, at 13:23, Adrien Grand  wrote:
> 
> It's indeed working. As Robert suggested, it's in the sandbox more because
> it's unclear if it is really needed than because it is unstable.
> 
> The few data points I have suggest that among the users for whom LongPoint
> is not enough, there are more users who need unsigned 64 bits integers than
> true 128 bits integers.
> 


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