[LUCENE-1710] Add byte/short to NumericUtils, NumericField and NumericRangeQuery

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: core/index, core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Uwe Schindler
• Created: 22/Jun/09 10:59
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:03
• Resolved: 09/Nov/18 23:00

Description

Although NumericRangeQuery will not profit much from trie-encoding short/byte fields (byte fields with e.g. precisionStep 8 would only create one precision), it may be good to have these two data types available with NumericField to be generally able to store them in prefix-encoded form in index.

This is important for loading them into FieldCache where they require much less memory.