[LUCENE-2257] relax the per-segment max unique term limit

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.2, 3.0.1, 4.0-ALPHA
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 09/Feb/10 19:14
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:20
• Resolved: 12/Feb/10 10:57

Description

Lucene can't handle more than 2.1B (limit of signed 32 bit int) unique terms in a single segment.

But I think we can improve this to termIndexInterval (default 128) * 2.1B. There is one place (internal API only) where Lucene uses an int but should use a long.