Use scaled_floats for percentages in ES mapping #2156
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Elasticsearch has recently added scaled_float as an option for storing floating
point numbers. The scaled floats are stored internally as longs, which means
they can take advantage of the integer compression in Lucene. See
elastic/elasticsearch#19264 for details.
The PR moves all percentages to scaled floats. In our
fields.yml
we assume adefault scaling factor of 1000, which should work well for our percentages
(values between 0 and 1). This scaling factor can also be set to a different
value in
fields.yml
.