Make changelog and issue history a directly queriable field via REST API

Customer would like to request a method to be able to use the count from an issues changelog as a queriable value. For example, when doing a search on issues using the REST API, the changelog can be expanded and give a count of how many entries are contained within the issue's changelog. This value, however, is not queriable in any method we've found using JQL, so issues cannot be limited on whether they have more or less than a certain value, using for example changelog >= 100. This can cause larger processing loads to pull all the issues and manage them internal to a script vs. having Jira search handle searching this value and only giving the relevant issues, since this value is already available internally to Jira.