[LUCENE-6917] Deprecate and rename NumericField/RangeQuery to LegacyNumeric

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 02/Dec/15 20:49
• Updated: 31/May/17 05:02
• Resolved: 11/Dec/15 21:14

Description

DimensionalValues seems to be better across the board (indexing time, indexing size, search-speed, search-time heap required) than NumericField, at least in my testing so far.

I think for 6.0 we should move IntField, LongField, FloatField, DoubleField and NumericRangeQuery to backward-codecs, and rename with Legacy prefix?