: What I'm looking for is to do everything in single shot in Solr. : I'm not even sure if it's possible or not. : Finding the max value and then running another query is NOT my ideal : solution.
stats component to determine the max value, and a second query to search for docs containing that value (plus potentially additional queries to paginate) is the most efficient way i know of to get this kind of info out of the box. in theory you could write a SerachCOmponent that ran after StatsComponent to modify the query based on it's results (i know Ryan has talked about doing something similar for range faceting). -Hoss
