The CollapsingQParserPlugin should give you the same facet counts as
group.truncate.
You're using group.facets, which the CollapsingQParserplugin doesn't yet
support. I think this would be an excellent feature, so we could make a
jira ticket to add this feature.
Joel Bernstein
Search Engineer at Heliosearch
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Joel Bernstein <joels...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reposting this from jira ticket to users list:
>
> I'm noticing a very weird bug using the CollapsingQParserPlugin. We tried
> to use this plugin when we realized that faceting on the groups would take
> a ridiculous amount of time. To its credit, it works very quickly, however
> the facet counts that it gives are incorrect.
>
> We have a smallish index of about 200k documents with about with about 50k
> distinct groups within it.
>
> When we use the group implementation
> (&group=true&group.field=PrSKU&group.facet=true) which I believe this
> attempts to emulate, the facet counts are totally correct.
>
> When we use the field collapsing implementation, it will show an incorrect
> count for the non-filtered query, but when we go to the filtered query, the
> facet count corrects itself and matches the document count.
>
> Here are some SOLR responses:
>
> solrslave01:8983/index/select?q=classIDs:12&fl=PrSKU&fq=
> {!collapse%20field=PrSKU}&facet=true&facet.field=at_12_wood_tone
>
> The facet field will return
>
> <int name="Dark Wood">867</int>
> <int name="Medium Wood">441</int>
> <int name="Light Wood">253</int>
>
> When I actually apply a filter query like so:
>
>
> solrslave01:8983/index/select?q=classIDs:12&fl=PrSKU&fq={!collapse%20field=PrSKU}
>
>
> &facet=true&facet.field=at_12_wood_tone&fq=at_12_wood_tone:%22Light%20Wood%22
>
> I actually pull back 270 results and the facet updates itself with the
> correct number at the bottom
>
> <int name="Light Wood">270</int>
> <int name="Dark Wood">68</int>
> <int name="Medium Wood">66</int>
>
> If this were the same number pre and post filter query I would assume that
> it was simply my data that was bad, however I've pored over this for the
> better part of a day and I'm pretty sure it's the plugin. For reference,
> this field that I'm faceting on is a multiValued field, however I have
> noticed the exact same behavior on non multiValued fields (such as price).
>
> I can provide any other details you might need
>
