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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-7589

Prevent outliers from raising the number of bits of everyone with numeric doc values

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 7.0
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    Description

      Today we encode entire segments with a single number of bits per value. It was done this way because it was faster, but it also means a single outlier can significantly increase the space requirements. I think we should have protection against that.

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        1. LUCENE-7589.patch
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          Adrien Grand

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              jpountz Adrien Grand
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