[LUCENE-4694] Add back IndexReader.fields() -> Multi*, or discourage term vectors in some better way

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 17/Jan/13 14:57
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:36

Description

Users can easily get term vectors from any indexreader, but not postings lists. this encourages them to do really slow things: like pulling term vectors for every single document.

this is really really so much worse than going through multifields or whatever.