Total number of Facets

[harish singh]

While doing a facet query:

example:

   - params:
   {
      - facet: "true",
      - indent: "true",
      - q: "*:*",
      - facet.field: "loginName",
      - wt: "json"
      }


By defualt, Solr return 100 Facets.
This is fine. If I do "facet.limit=-1", I can get all the facets.

Now suppose, there are 100,0000 distinct "loginName"s.
How to I get this count directly?


Basically, What I am trying to do is to do a query (search query or facet
query) and get the total distinct "loginName" in my data.
I don't want to do a "facet.limit=-1" and iterate over all the facets.  So
I am trying to find an alternative.
Having a difficult time finding some way to do this.  Has anyone tried to
do this before?



Thanks,
Harish