Hi, I think you are saying dupes are the main problem? If so, http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Deduplication ?
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Spam <ps...@mac.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 1:13:44 AM > Subject: Tips for getting unique results? > > Hi, > > I have documents with a field that has "1A2B3C" alphanumeric characters. I >can query for * and sort results based on this field, however I'd like to >"uniq" these results (remove duplicates) so that I can get the 5 largest >unique >values. I can't use the StatsComponent because my values have letters in >them >too. > > Faceting (and ignoring the counts) gets me half of the way there, but I can >only sort ascending. If I could also sort facet results descending, I'd be >done. I'd rather not return all documents and just parse the last few >results >to work around this. > > Any ideas? > > > -Pete >