[LUCENE-5837] Only check docsWithField when necessary in numeric comparators

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 4.10, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Adrien Grand
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 19/Jul/14 14:09
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:12
• Resolved: 20/Jul/14 15:09

Description

Our numeric comparators have branches to deal with missing values. However there are some cases when checking docs that have a field is not useful:

• if all docs have a value
• if no docs have a value
• if the missing value is 0