You'll want to use faceting, try to use a query like this http://localhost:8080/Solr/select/?q=artist%3Awar&version=2.2&start=0&rows=0&facet=true&facet.limit=-1&facet.field=artist
replace localhost:8080 with your own :) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Löfquist < daniel.lofqu...@it.cdon.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to accomplish something akin to "GROUP BY" in SQL but in Solr. > I have an index full of songs (one song per document in Solr) by various > artists and I > would like to construct a search that gives me all of the artists back, one > row per > artist. The current search returns one row per artist and song. > > So I get this right now if I search after "war" in the artist-field: > > 30 Years War - Ideal Means > 30 Years War - Dirty Castle > 30 Years War - Misinformed > All Out War - Soaked In Torment > All Out War - Claim Your Innocence > Audio War - Negativity > Audio War - One Drug > Audio War - Super Freak > > But this is what I'd really like: > > 30 Years War - whatever song > All Out War - whatever song > Audio War - whatever song > > I tried using facets but couldn't get it to work properly. Anybody have a > clue how to do > something like this? > > //Daniel >
