Re: SOLR grouped query sorting on numFound

2013-09-25 Thread Erick Erickson
but if it's too large on the client, wouldn't it also be too large on the server? After all, you have to hold the entire set of groups in memory since you can't know ahead of time which will be the largest. Or at least the counts of them all. I suppose you could do some two-pass process where you r

Re: SOLR grouped query sorting on numFound

2013-09-25 Thread Brent Ryan
ya, that's the problem... you can't sort by "numFound" and it's not feasible to do the sort on the client because the grouped result set is too large. Brent On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > Hmmm, just specifying &sort= is _almost_ what you want, > except it sorts by the

Re: SOLR grouped query sorting on numFound

2013-09-25 Thread Erick Erickson
Hmmm, just specifying &sort= is _almost_ what you want, except it sorts by the value of fields in the doc not numFound. this shouldn't be hard to do on the client though, but you'd have to return all the groups... FWIW, Erick On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Brent Ryan wrote: > We ran into 1 sn

SOLR grouped query sorting on numFound

2013-09-24 Thread Brent Ryan
We ran into 1 snag during development with SOLR and I thought I'd run it by anyone to see if they had any slick ways to solve this issue. Basically, we're performing a SOLR query with grouping and want to be able to sort by the number of documents found within each group. Our query response from