it is hoped that this field can be used as an additional sorting criteria in order to make the ordering of results with the same _score value more deterministic, and therefore make testing more stable and predictable.
my concerns with this change are:
greatly increasing the index size (on disk)
increasing the memory consumption (at runtime once docvalues are loaded)
the source_id values are almost entirely unique and non-sequential, so I'd expect to see poor compression.
although.. these concerns are hopefully unwarranted, we might want to check those before merging this.
draft PR to test the effect of enabling
docvalues
for thesource_id
field. this is motivated by the discussion in https://github.com/pelias/api/pull/1608it is hoped that this field can be used as an additional sorting criteria in order to make the ordering of results with the same
_score
value more deterministic, and therefore make testing more stable and predictable.my concerns with this change are:
docvalues
are loaded)the
source_id
values are almost entirely unique and non-sequential, so I'd expect to see poor compression.although.. these concerns are hopefully unwarranted, we might want to check those before merging this.