[LUCENE-6458] MultiTermQuery's FILTER rewrite method should support skipping whenever possible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.2, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Adrien Grand
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 29/Apr/15 11:25
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:32
• Resolved: 04/Jun/15 22:23

Description

Today MultiTermQuery's FILTER rewrite always builds a bit set fom all matching terms. This means that we need to consume the entire postings lists of all matching terms. Instead we should try to execute like regular disjunctions when there are few terms.