Hi Scott,

You may find this ticket interesting:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10651

Joel Bernstein
http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Scott Blum <dragonsi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Yonik!  Glad to hear I'm not completely crazy.  We should probably
> update to 6.x and try out streaming.
>
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Yonik Seeley <ysee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Scott Blum <dragonsi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I think I'm missing something fundamental about how subfacets work and
>> > relate to each other.  I don't really understand when it's legal to
>> > reference a subfacet, and when it's not.
>> >
>> > For example, here's a simple subfacet example from
>> > http://yonik.com/solr-subfacets/
>> >
>> >       top_authors:{
>> >         type: terms,
>> >         field: author,
>> >         limit: 7,
>> >         sort: "revenue desc",
>> >         facet:{
>> >           revenue: "sum(sales)"
>> >         }
>> >       }
>> >
>> >
>> > Notice how "revenue" is referenced from top_authors.sort?  The thing
>> is, I
>> > haven't seen any examples where the subfacet is referenced *except* for
>> > sort.
>>
>> That's currently all we can do.
>> There's an issue open for filtering buckets by calculated metrics, but
>> I don't think that addresses what you're talking about.
>>
>> > What I'm actually trying to accomplish is doing some post-processing
>> with
>> > the aggregation functions.  But I don't want to aggregate at the "leaf
>> > buckets" -- I'm trying to aggregate *across* buckets at a higher level.
>>
>> Some small subset may be covered by
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8998 child rollups
>> or https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10545 compound field
>> faceting
>>
>> But the streaming expressions is more likely the right solution for
>> more general purpose computation.  If there is a common enough
>> faceting usecase that needs to be faster, we can look at how to fit it
>> into the JSON Facet API.  Some of the streaming expressions stuff
>> already starts off with faceting as the source for its input stream.
>>
>> -Yonik
>>
>>
>>
>> >  You
>> > could think of this as similar to the "reduce" phase of a map-reduce.
>> >
>> > In other words, I know how to fan *out* with subfacets to create more
>> > buckets; what I don't know is how to then reduce those buckets into
>> > aggregate statistics about the buckets.
>> >
>> > What am I missing?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Scott
>> >
>>
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