[LUCENE-5992] Version should not be encoded as a String in the index

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 06/Oct/14 09:05
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:17
• Resolved: 06/Oct/14 22:11

Description

The version is really "just" 3 (maybe 4) ints under-the-hood, but today we write it as a String which then requires spooky string tokenization/parsing when we open the index. I think it should be encoded directly as ints.

In LUCENE-5952 I had tried to make this change, but it was controversial, and got booted.

Then in LUCENE-5969, I tried again, but that issue has morphed (nicely!) into fixing all sorts of things except these three ints.

Maybe 3rd time's a charm