Pat,

I tried this on a set of a couple hundred records and it works well.   
Thanks !

Are you going to summarize all the recent changes sometime?  It looks  
like there may have been some changes to work with MVA facets better  
too ?

-Eric

On May 8, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Pat Allan wrote:

>
> Hi guys
>
> I've been pairing with Martin Emde today at RailsConf, and I think
> we've made some changes that should get large facet sets working (ie:
> using :limit and :max_matches, only for the #facets call, not #for).
>
> If someone with a large dataset could give the latest code a shot and
> confirm things are working nicely, that'd be great.
>
> Cheers
>
> -- 
> Pat
>
> On 27/04/2009, at 3:12 PM, Eric Obershaw wrote:
>
>>
>>> Anyway, I feel it is unintuitive for pagination settings to  
>>> interfere
>>> with facet information. If I do a search, and there are 500 results,
>>> the facet information should reflect the total result set
>>
>>> I would like to find out how others have dealt with the faceted
>> search
>>> issues I'm having.
>>
>> I completely agree.  I just struggled with the same thing and ended  
>> up
>> just writing my own pagination.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Thuva Tharma wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello Sanjay,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply. Your suggestion works. Suppose I have 1000
>>> restaurants. Then the following returns the correct facet
>>> information:
>>>
>>> facets = Restaurant.facets(:limit => 1000, :max_matches => 1000)
>>>
>>> By the way, I'm not sure why I need to specify both :limit
>>> and :max_matches.
>>>
>>> Now, I have a different problem. The pagination no longer works.  
>>> If I
>>> do, facets.for, then all the restaurants are loaded at once. How  
>>> do I
>>> implement pagination?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I feel it is unintuitive for pagination settings to  
>>> interfere
>>> with facet information. If I do a search, and there are 500 results,
>>> the facet information should reflect the total result set  
>>> (containing
>>> 500 records). Currently, the facet information seems to reflect the
>>> result set in the current page.
>>>
>>> I would like to find out how others have dealt with the faceted
>>> search
>>> issues I'm having.
>>>
>>> P.S. If I put a configuration entry in sphinx.conf file for
>>> max_matches and run rake ts:index, then the entry disappears.  
>>> Running
>>> rake:start and rake:stop doesn't behave that way.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> -- Thuva Tharma
>>>
>>> On Apr 26, 11:34 am, Sanjay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I think this might be due to the pagination settings on your
>>>> request.
>>>> To increase the number of results on a specific request, try the
>>>> request with the following parameters:
>>>>
>>>> Restaurant.facets(:limit => 50, :max_matches => 50)
>>>>
>>>> Set your limit based on the number of results you want.  Also note
>>>> that max_matches can not be greater than the value in your sphinx
>>>> configuration file.
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 24, 2:59 pm, Thuva Tharma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm having problems with the facets functionality offered by
>>>>> Thinking
>>>>> Sphinx. I have a restaurant model configured as shown in this
>>>>> pastie:http://gist.github.com/101305
>>>>
>>>>> When I do Restaurant.facets, the returned hash doesn't reflect the
>>>>> records in the database. A sample hash that was returned can be
>>>>> seen
>>>>> in this pastie:http://gist.github.com/101308
>>>>
>>>>> The facet information for region_id is completely correct.
>>>>
>>>>> However, the facet information for cuisine_ids and
>>>>> neighbourhood_id is
>>>>> is wrong. The cuisine_ids and neighbourhood_id hashes are missing
>>>>> many
>>>>> ids that should be there.
>>>>
>>>>> For example, there are 43 restaurants in the neighbourhood given
>>>>> by id
>>>>> 238. Also, there are 407 restaurants with the cuisine given by id
>>>>> 11.
>>>>> As you can see from the pastie above, those ids are not in the
>>>>> hash.
>>>>
>>>>> I couldn't figure out the issue. Reindexing didn't work. I also
>>>>> tried
>>>>> deleting the files in db/sphinx and indexing. That didn't work as
>>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>>> By the way, I'm using 0.9.8-release (r1371).
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>
>>>>> -- Thuva Tharma
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >


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