[LUCENE-6962] Add per-dimension min/max to dimensional values

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 06/Jan/16 09:30
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:48
• Resolved: 08/Jan/16 10:52

Description

It can be useful for apps to know the min/max value for a given field
for each dimension, to give the global bounding box. E.g. an app can
know that a given range filter excludes all documents in a
segment/index and skip searching it.