[LUCENE-9105] UniformSplit postings format should detect corrupted index

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.5
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Bruno Roustant
• Reporter: Bruno Roustant
• Created: 20/Dec/19 09:41
• Updated: 22/Nov/24 14:44
• Resolved: 31/Dec/19 08:13

Description

BlockTree postings format has some checks when reading index metadata to detect index corruption. UniformSplit should have the same. Additionally UniformSplit has assertions in BlockReader that should be runtime checks to also detect index corruption (this case has been encountered in production environment).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1105