: Also, the reason other engines require you to mark the fields in the : index definition is because they actually index the data differently if : it is a facet vs a normal indexed field. It's cool that solr doesn't : have to do this but there may be a case where it would be a good idea : someday.
right ... if down the road we find a way to imrpvoe faceting (or any other feature) by storing more data on disk at indexing time, then configuration to tell you that data was there and how to use it would live in the schema.xml -- but options that don't matter once the data is already written (or can be differet for differnet people depending on how they use the data) can/should live in solrconfig.xml (like the options in mainIndex right now) Alternately: if kwe add some custom "facet caching" that doens't require any new data on disk, but builds new in memory structures, that should live in the solrconfig.xml as well since it's the kind of thing that would likely be configured idfferently for masters/slaves. -Hoss
