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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-1483:
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>> IndexSearcher(IndexReader, boolean sortSegments) or something

> But isn't that too coarse? (Ie, it's only very specific kinds of queries, 
> against very specific fields, that are affected by visiting segments in 
> reverse-size order)?

Actually, I think a number of applications will probably be affected (those 
sensitive to doc order).
Think about anyone using SortedVIntListBuilder, or anyone with their own hit 
collector that short-circuits too soon based on the assumption that docs often 
come in index order.  The worst thing is that they often will come in index 
order... and only break later on under certain circumstances.

We could add a flag to methods that take a hit collector, but that would 
require keeping two lists of Segments (sorted and original) and corresponding 
bases.  It seemes cleaner to just sort or not in the constructor..... people 
who want both behaviors can instantiate two IndexSearcher objects.

> Actually, how would this help fix Solr's "external file" field (vs the 
> private FieldCache approach)?

It's unrelated, I should have made that clearer.

> It's really like Solr needs its own "key", combined with the SegmentReader

Yep.  No worries... I think I've got this one figured out.  There are numbers 
of options (including thread-local too), but I'm liking the sound of wrapping 
segment readers for general flexibility.

> Change IndexSearcher multisegment searches to search each individual segment 
> using a single HitCollector
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1483
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1483
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.9
>            Reporter: Mark Miller
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1483-backcompat.patch, LUCENE-1483-partial.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, 
> LUCENE-1483.patch, LUCENE-1483.patch, sortBench.py, sortCollate.py
>
>
> This issue changes how an IndexSearcher searches over multiple segments. The 
> current method of searching multiple segments is to use a MultiSegmentReader 
> and treat all of the segments as one. This causes filters and FieldCaches to 
> be keyed to the MultiReader and makes reopen expensive. If only a few 
> segments change, the FieldCache is still loaded for all of them.
> This patch changes things by searching each individual segment one at a time, 
> but sharing the HitCollector used across each segment. This allows 
> FieldCaches and Filters to be keyed on individual SegmentReaders, making 
> reopen much cheaper. FieldCache loading over multiple segments can be much 
> faster as well - with the old method, all unique terms for every segment is 
> enumerated against each segment - because of the likely logarithmic change in 
> terms per segment, this can be very wasteful. Searching individual segments 
> avoids this cost. The term/document statistics from the multireader are used 
> to score results for each segment.
> When sorting, its more difficult to use a single HitCollector for each sub 
> searcher. Ordinals are not comparable across segments. To account for this, a 
> new field sort enabled HitCollector is introduced that is able to collect and 
> sort across segments (because of its ability to compare ordinals across 
> segments). This TopFieldCollector class will collect the values/ordinals for 
> a given segment, and upon moving to the next segment, translate any 
> ordinals/values so that they can be compared against the values for the new 
> segment. This is done lazily.
> All and all, the switch seems to provide numerous performance benefits, in 
> both sorted and non sorted search. We were seeing a good loss on indices with 
> lots of segments (1000?) and certain queue sizes / queries, but the latest 
> results seem to show thats been mostly taken care of (you shouldnt be using 
> such a large queue on such a segmented index anyway).
> * Introduces
> ** MultiReaderHitCollector - a HitCollector that can collect across multiple 
> IndexReaders. Old HitCollectors are wrapped to support multiple IndexReaders.
> ** TopFieldCollector - a HitCollector that can compare values/ordinals across 
> IndexReaders and sort on fields.
> ** FieldValueHitQueue - a Priority queue that is part of the 
> TopFieldCollector implementation.
> ** FieldComparator - a new Comparator class that works across IndexReaders. 
> Part of the TopFieldCollector implementation.
> ** FieldComparatorSource - new class to allow for custom Comparators.
> * Alters
> ** IndexSearcher uses a single HitCollector to collect hits against each 
> individual SegmentReader. All the other changes stem from this ;)
> * Deprecates
> ** TopFieldDocCollector
> ** FieldSortedHitQueue

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