[SOLR-3595] Currency types do not support range queries when multiValued

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0, 6.0
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis
• Labels: CurrencyField
• Assignee: Chris M. Hostetter
• Reporter: Erick Erickson
• Created: 05/Jul/12 22:14
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:52
• Resolved: 11/Sep/12 23:21

Description

You can define the currency type as multiValued. However, if you do (and have more than one value), range queries, at least, do not work. See the thread titled "Filtering a query by range returning unexpected results".

I'm not at all sure that currency type should support multivalued. For instance, how would one handle storing multiple values for a currency type in different currencies (e.g. USD and EUR)? I don't know enough about the internals to understand if it's possible, this JIRA is the result of a question on the users list.

If we decide that currency should not support multiValued, it seems a check at startup is in order on the "fail early, fail loudly" principle.