[SOLR-11437] double open ended range queries should be optimized to DocValuesFieldExistsQuery or NormsFieldExistsQuery

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 04/Oct/17 16:54
• Updated: 21/Jan/20 22:26
• Resolved: 21/Jan/20 22:26

Description

DocValuesFieldExistsQuery & NormsFieldExistsQuery are efficient ways to determine if a doc has a value in a given field (assuming the field has docValues or norms respectively)

Since Solr's schema knows if/when these properties are true for a given field, we should be able to optimize some of the field:[* TO *] usecases to use these queries under the covers – notably in FieldType.getRangeQuery and subclasses that override it, but there may be other cases where they could come in handy as well

Issue Links

• Is contained by: SOLR-11746 numeric fields need better error handling for prefix/wildcard syntax -- consider uniform support for "foo:* == foo:[* TO *]"
• relates to: SOLR-12488 Rewrite exists field value query to leverage DocValuesFieldExistsQuery and NormsFieldExistsQuery