[LUCENE-5419] Implement Codec for bulk copying of postings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: core/codecs, core/index, core/store
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Otis Gospodnetic
• Created: 28/Jan/14 14:57
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:59
• Resolved: 29/Jan/14 21:17

Description

Based on mikemccand's suggestion:

We have no codec that implements bulk merging for postings, which
would be interesting to pursue: in the append-only case it's possible,
and merging of postings is normally by far the most time consuming
step of a merge.

Source: http://search-lucene.com/m/Kw9ZhaUjhA