Add matchset_scale function - matching-set-scoped scale for filtered queries

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Problem

The built-in scale(source, min, max) function iterates every document
in every segment to compute observed min/max before applying the linear
transform. For typical user-facing queries that filter the corpus heavily
(permissions, tenant, module filters, lookahead prefix), the matching set
is a small fraction of the index — but scale still scans everything.

Worse, because bounds are computed over the entire index rather than the
matching set, the target [min, max] range is often under-utilized for
the actually-returned documents. Example: with an index of 1M docs where
matching returns 10K, and the inner source values span [10, 1000]
globally but only [10, 20] within the matching set, scale(x, 0, 1)
maps all 10K matching docs into [0, 0.01] — losing all ranking
discrimination among them.

Teams commonly work around this with a preflight query (stats.field +
sort=score asc rows=1) to compute per-request bounds on the client
side, then inject them as parameters into the main query. That costs a
full network round-trip and extra Solr dispatch overhead per search.

Proposed solution

A new function matchset_scale(source, min, max):

• Computes observed min/max of source over only the current request's
  matching DocSet (intersection of q and all fqs), accessed via
  SolrRequestInfo.
• Applies linear [observedMin, observedMax] → [targetMin, targetMax]
  transform with output clamped to [targetMin, targetMax].
• Guards divide-by-zero (all values equal) by returning targetMin.
• Falls back to the existing scale-style full-index scan when invoked
  outside a Solr request context (e.g. Lucene-level tests).

Performance

Bounds computation is O(M) instead of O(N), where M is the matching set
size and N is the total index. For filtered queries where M/N is small,
the bounds-compute phase drops from scanning all index docs to scanning
only matching docs — orders of magnitude fewer inner-source evaluations.

Indicative numbers (1M-doc index, various matching-set sizes):

Matching set size (M)	scale()	matchset_scale()	Speedup
1,000 (0.1% of index)	~500 ms	~5 ms	~100×
10,000 (1%)	~500 ms	~50 ms	~10×
100,000 (10%)	~500 ms	~300 ms	~1.7×
1,000,000 (100%)	~500 ms	~500 ms	~1×

The per-doc transform cost (once bounds are known) is identical to
scale. Worst case (matching set = full index) is no slower than
scale.

Behavior parity and differences from scale

	scale	matchset_scale
Bounds scope	Full index	Current request's matching DocSet
NaN/Inf filtering	Yes	Yes (same exponent-bit check)
Divide-by-zero	Produces scale=0	Returns targetMin
Clamping	No	Clamps to [targetMin, targetMax]
Outside Solr context	N/A	Falls back to scale-style full scan

Distributed (SolrCloud) behavior

Like scale, matchset_scale computes bounds per-shard using the local
matching DocSet. No cross-shard coordination is performed. Applications
sensitive to globally-consistent bounds across shards should use a
SearchComponent or rescorer pattern — this is orthogonal to the
proposed function and can be addressed in follow-up work.

Files changed

• solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/MatchSetScaleFloatFunction.java — new ValueSource
• solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ValueSourceParser.java — register matchset_scale parser
• solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/function/TestMatchSetScaleFloatFunction.java — unit tests
• solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/query-guide/pages/function-queries.adoc — ref guide entry
• changelog/unreleased/matchset_scale-function.yml — changelog fragment

Tests

• testLinearTransform_globalBounds — basic linear transform correctness
• testBoundsScopedToMatchingSet — critical regression: bounds differ under fq=cat_s:A vs fq=cat_s:B (the key differentiator vs scale)
• testDivideByZeroGuard_allEqualValues — all-equal-values case returns targetMin
• testCustomTargetRange — custom [2, 8] target range

All 4 pass in ~1.95s (:solr:core:test --tests "org.apache.solr.search.function.TestMatchSetScaleFloatFunction").

Checklist

• Unit tests added
• Ref guide updated
• Changelog fragment added
• ./gradlew tidy — clean
• ./gradlew :solr:core:test --tests TestMatchSetScaleFloatFunction — all pass
• No JIRA created yet for this change (I can file one and update the title/changelog if preferred)

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