diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextCodec.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextCodec.java
index a412b6e74b6..531f38458e4 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextCodec.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextCodec.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.codecs.LiveDocsFormat;
 import org.apache.lucene.codecs.NormsFormat;
 import org.apache.lucene.codecs.PostingsFormat;
 import org.apache.lucene.codecs.SegmentInfoFormat;
+import org.apache.lucene.codecs.SimpleDocValuesFormat;
 import org.apache.lucene.codecs.StoredFieldsFormat;
 import org.apache.lucene.codecs.TermVectorsFormat;
 
@@ -88,4 +89,13 @@ public final class SimpleTextCodec extends Codec {
   public LiveDocsFormat liveDocsFormat() {
     return liveDocs;
   }
+
+  // nocommit;
+  private final SimpleDocValuesFormat nocommit = new SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat();
+  @Override
+  public SimpleDocValuesFormat simpleDocValuesFormat() {
+    return nocommit;
+  }
+  
+  
 }
diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
index a8832394a62..d2a3ec95c8b 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ public class SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat extends SimpleDocValuesFormat {
           readLine();
           assert startsWith(PATTERN);
           field.pattern = stripPrefix(PATTERN);
+          field.dataStartFilePointer = data.getFilePointer();
           data.seek(data.getFilePointer() + (1+field.pattern.length()) * maxDoc);
         } else if (DocValues.isBytes(dvType)) {
           readLine();
@@ -377,6 +378,7 @@ public class SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat extends SimpleDocValuesFormat {
           readLine();
           assert startsWith(PATTERN);
           field.pattern = stripPrefix(PATTERN);
+          field.dataStartFilePointer = data.getFilePointer();
           data.seek(data.getFilePointer() + (9+field.pattern.length()+field.maxLength) * maxDoc);
           break;
         } else if (DocValues.isSortedBytes(dvType)) {
@@ -392,12 +394,13 @@ public class SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat extends SimpleDocValuesFormat {
           readLine();
           assert startsWith(ORDPATTERN);
           field.ordPattern = stripPrefix(ORDPATTERN);
+          field.dataStartFilePointer = data.getFilePointer();
+          // nocommit: we need to seek past the data section!!!!
         } else if (DocValues.isFloat(dvType)) {
           // nocommit
         } else {
           throw new AssertionError();
         }
-        field.dataStartFilePointer = data.getFilePointer();
       }
     }
 
@@ -515,7 +518,15 @@ public class SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat extends SimpleDocValuesFormat {
                 // value from the wrong field ...
                 in.seek(field.dataStartFilePointer + (1+field.pattern.length())*docID);
                 SimpleTextUtil.readLine(in, scratch);
-                return decoder.parse(scratch.utf8ToString(), pos).longValue();
+                System.out.println("trying to parse number: " + scratch.utf8ToString());
+                // nocommit
+                long seekPos = field.dataStartFilePointer;
+                byte wholeFile[] = new byte[(int)(in.length()-seekPos)];
+                IndexInput foo = in.clone();
+                foo.seek(seekPos);
+                foo.readBytes(wholeFile, 0, wholeFile.length);
+                System.out.println("rest: " + new String(wholeFile, 0, wholeFile.length, "UTF-8"));
+                return field.minValue + decoder.parse(scratch.utf8ToString(), pos).longValue();
               } catch (IOException ioe) {
                 throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
               }
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java
index 62885d2d395..3020fb87278 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/DocFieldProcessor.java
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ final class DocFieldProcessor extends DocConsumer {
     }
     
     // close perDocConsumer during flush to ensure all files are flushed due to PerCodec CFS
-    IOUtils.close(perDocConsumer);
+    // nocommit
+    IOUtils.close(perDocConsumer, dvConsumer);
 
     // Important to save after asking consumer to flush so
     // consumer can alter the FieldInfo* if necessary.  EG,
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentCoreReaders.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentCoreReaders.java
index 92a33d2c17a..cc322313f3e 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentCoreReaders.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentCoreReaders.java
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ final class SegmentCoreReaders {
       // TODO: since we don't write any norms file if there are no norms,
       // kinda jaky to assume the codec handles the case of no norms file at all gracefully?!
       norms = codec.normsFormat().docsProducer(segmentReadState);
-      perDocProducer = codec.docValuesFormat().docsProducer(segmentReadState);
+      // nocommit
+      perDocProducer = codec.simpleDocValuesFormat().fieldsProducer(segmentReadState);
   
       fieldsReaderOrig = si.info.getCodec().storedFieldsFormat().fieldsReader(cfsDir, si.info, fieldInfos, context);