What version of Solr are you using? And, assuming the version that has it in, have you seen grouping?
Which is another way of asking why you want to do this, perhaps it's an XY problem.... Best Erick On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Peter Spam <ps...@mac.com> wrote: > 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 >
