[Exist-development] No More Range Indexes Possible

[Michael W. <wes...@ja...>]

Development,

In an attempt to add more range index types, I've confirmed that the
maximum number of range index types is 7.  The following bit mask in
RangeIndexSpec.java guarantees this:

	/**
	 * Bit mask to extract the type of the range index.
	 */
	public static final int RANGE_INDEX_MASK = 0x07;

I had hoped that this wasn't the case, but with a quick implementation
of "GYEAR = 12" showed that it was being indexed as "FLOAT = 4" (after
the 0x07 mask was applied).

So, is there a way of adding more index types, or am I going to have
to create a new index plugin to do so?

-- 
Michael Westbay
Writer/System Administrator
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