Hello list, Took a while to get back to following the discussions after vacation.
We have recently stumbled upon an issue with distributed facet search. I would appreciate any help before checking the source code of solr 1.4 we currently use. When shooting a distributed query, we use facet.limit=1000. Then the merging SOLR combines the results. We also use facet.zeros=false to ensure returning only non-zero facet entries. The issue that we found is that there was a gap in time in the final results list (reverse sorted by date attached to each entry in all the shards), whereby entries stamped with certain date disappeared. If we use different query criteria, that produces less than 1000 results both in each of the shards and combined, we see those "missing" entries. So the problem is not in missing data, but in the combination algorithm. Can someone explain, how exactly does the merging SOLR combine the results from shard, when they exceed the facet.limit? Please ask questions, if something isn't clear or you need more details. Thanks, Dmitry Kan
