diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsReader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsReader.java
index 6b72bc0457e..2872e78f360 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsReader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsReader.java
@@ -648,6 +648,10 @@ public final class CompressingStoredFieldsReader extends StoredFieldsReader {
     return numDirtyChunks;
   }
 
+  int getPackedIntsVersion() {
+    return packedIntsVersion;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public long ramBytesUsed() {
     return indexReader.ramBytesUsed();
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.java
index 42e4e679e7b..dd32083de1b 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.java
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ public final class CompressingStoredFieldsWriter extends StoredFieldsWriter {
         }
       } else if (matchingFieldsReader.getCompressionMode() == compressionMode && 
                  matchingFieldsReader.getChunkSize() == chunkSize && 
+                 matchingFieldsReader.getPackedIntsVersion() == PackedInts.VERSION_CURRENT &&
                  liveDocs == null &&
                  !tooDirty(matchingFieldsReader)) { 
         // optimized merge, raw byte copy