Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-05 Thread baronDodd
Actually I retract last comment - the patch on SOLR-2066 looks like it could work after all...it gets further but then dies in the HighlightComponent.. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/A-rant-about-field-collapsing-tp3222798p3229194.html Sent from the Solr -

Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-05 Thread baronDodd
Sorry - should have read the manual: "Distributed search support for result grouping has not yet been implemented." I wonder if this is planned for any time soon? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2066 looks like it was more field collapsing based than grouping? -- View this message i

Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-05 Thread baronDodd
Many thanks. I took your changes for the following commits: SOLR-2642 SOLR-2637 SOLR-2523 I have gone withhout the group.main option as on hindsight it is quite useful to use the GroupCommand and Group objects with the results - especially group.ngroups has optimized our code where we used to pe

Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-04 Thread Martijn v Groningen
Well, the original page moved to: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsingUncommitted Assuming that you're using Solr 3.3 you can't get the grouped result () with SolrJ. I added grouping support to SolrJ some time ago and will be in Solr 3.4. You can use a nightly 3.x build to use the grouping

Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-04 Thread baronDodd
Ok thank you very much for clearing that up a little. I think another reason I was confused was that the wiki page for grouping was based around the original field collapsing plan at the time which led me to the jira and hence the patch files, rant over! Perhaps you can help to clarify if the curr

Re: A rant about field collapsing

2011-08-04 Thread Martijn v Groningen
The development of the field collapse feature is a long and confusing story. The main point is that SOLR-236 was never going to scale and the performance in general was bad. A new approach was needed. This was implemented in SOLR-1682 and added to the trunk (4.0-dev) around September last year. Lat