Early termination with index sorting always return the best top N in the response but set the flag `terminated_early`
in the response. This can be confusing because we use the same flag for `terminate_after` which on the contrary returns partial results.
This change removes the flag when results are not partial (early termination due to index sorting) and keeps it only when `terminate_after` is used.
Closes#26408
This commit refactors the query phase in order to be able
to automatically detect queries that can be early terminated.
If the index sort matches the query sort, the top docs collection is early terminated
on each segment and the computing of the total number of hits that match the query is delegated to a simple TotalHitCountCollector.
This change also adds a new parameter to the search request called `track_total_hits`.
It indicates if the total number of hits that match the query should be tracked.
If false, queries sorted by the index sort will not try to compute this information and
and will limit the collection to the first N documents per segment.
Aggregations are not impacted and will continue to see every document
even when the index sort matches the query sort and `track_total_hits` is false.
Relates #6720
This change adds an index setting to define how the documents should be sorted inside each Segment.
It allows any numeric, date, boolean or keyword field inside a mapping to be used to sort the index on disk.
It is not allowed to use a `nested` fields inside an index that defines an index sorting since `nested` fields relies on the original sort of the index.
This change does not add early termination capabilities in the search layer. This will be added in a follow up.
Relates #6720
Christoph Büscher
Jim Ferenczi
Clinton Gormley
Deb Adair
Adrien Grand