[LUCENE-10412] Improve handling of MatchNoDocsQuery in rewrite rules

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.1
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 09/Feb/22 10:17
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:35
• Resolved: 22/Feb/22 16:30

Description

Having MatchNoDocsQuery in your query tree usually doesn't make the query slower, but by recognizing it in rewrite rules, we could perform rewrites which would then sometimes unlock other rewrite rules.

For instance if you have a boolean query with 2 should clauses where one is a MatchAllDocsQuery and the other one is a MatchNoDocsQuery, we would naively run it as a disjunction today, while we could rewrite it to a MatchAllDocsQuery and leverage its specialized bulk scorer.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #664