On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Bruno Aranda <brunoara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, after some tests listing all the distinct surnames or other > fields is too slow and too memory consuming with our current infrastructure. > Could someone confirm that if I wanted to add this functionality (just count > the total of different facets) what I should do is to subclass the > SimpleFacets class and create an extended FacetComponent that returns the > size of the term counts list instead of the list itself?
This wouldn't be too hard to do... and I think it's been requested in the past at least a few times: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/7ab1d7fff1fb556e/numfound_for_facet_results The slightly harder part is changing the response format in a backward compatible way. -Yonik
