[SOLR-11023] Need SortedNumerics/Points version of EnumField

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0, 7.1, master (8.0)
• Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
• Labels: numeric-tries-to-points
• Assignee: Steve Rowe
• Reporter: Hoss Man
• Created: 07/Jul/17 00:02
• Updated: 17/Oct/17 11:04
• Resolved: 04/Aug/17 23:38

Description

although it's not a subclass of TrieField, EnumField does use "LegacyIntField" to index the int value associated with each of the enum values, in addition to using SortedSetDocValuesField when docValues="true" multivalued="true".

I have no idea if Points would be better/worse then Terms for low cardinality usecases like EnumField, but either way we should think about a new variant of EnumField that doesn't depend on LegacyIntField/LegacyNumericUtils.intToPrefixCoded and uses SortedNumericDocValues.

Issue Links

• blocks: SOLR-10803 Mark all Trie/LegacyNumeric based fields @deprecated in Solr7
• relates to: SOLR-11193 EnumField: multivalued sort and range queries don't work
• relates to: SOLR-5927 EnumField thinks DocValue support requires a default value or that the field be required
• relates to: SOLR-8396 Add support for PointFields in Solr