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[jira] [Resolved] (LUCENE-1612) expose lastDocId in the posting from the TermEnum API

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1612?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Wang resolved LUCENE-1612.
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    Resolution: Invalid
    
> expose lastDocId in the posting from the TermEnum API
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1612
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1612
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/index
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>            Reporter: John Wang
>         Attachments: lucene-1612-patch.txt
>
>
> We currently have on the TermEnum api: docFreq() which gives the number docs in the posting.
> It would be good to also have the max docid in the posting. That information is useful when construction a custom DocIdSet, .e.g determine sparseness of the doc list to decide whether or not to use a BitSet.
> I have written a patch to do this, the problem with it is the TermInfosWriter encodes values in VInt/VLong, there is very little flexibility to add in lastDocId while making the index backward compatible. (If simple int is used for say, docFreq, a bit can be used to flag reading of a new piece of information)
> output.writeVInt(ti.docFreq);                       // write doc freq
>     output.writeVLong(ti.freqPointer - lastTi.freqPointer); // write pointers
>     output.writeVLong(ti.proxPointer - lastTi.proxPointer);
> Anyway, patch is attached with:TestSegmentTermEnum modified to test this. TestBackwardsCompatibility fails due to reasons described above.

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