[LUCENE-6861] Default codec should support dimensional values

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 28/Oct/15 15:49
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:44
• Resolved: 01/Nov/15 10:20

Description

This is phase 3, follow-on from LUCENE-6852, to add dimensional values
support to Lucene, so we can index large "numeric" values like
BigInteger, BigDecimal, IPv6, and multi-dimensional things like 2d and
3d geo.

I created a new Lucene60Codec, implemented DimensionalFormat for it,
and a new FieldInfosFormat (to write/read the dimension settings for
each field), and moved Lucene54Codec to backwards-codecs.

I also fixed CheckIndex to do basic testing of the dimensional
values.