Numerical range faceting

[gwk]

Hi,

I'm currently using facet.query to do my numerical range faceting. I 
basically use a fixed price range of €0 to €10000 in steps of €500 which 
means 20 facet.queries plus an extra facet.query for anything above 
€10000. I use the inclusive/exclusive query as per my question two days 
ago so the facets add up to the total number of products. This is done 
so that the javascript on my search page can accurately show the amount 
of products returned for a specified range before submitting it to the 
server by adding up the facet counts for the selected range.

I'm a bit concerned about the amount and size of my request to the 
server. Especially because there are other numerical values which might 
be interesting to facet on and I've noticed the server won't response 
correctly if I add (many) more facet.queries by decreasing the step 
size. I was really hoping for faceting options for numerical ranges 
similar to the date faceting options. The functionality would be 
practically identical as far as I can tell (which isn't very far as I 
know very little about the internals of Solr) so I was wondering if such 
options are planned or if I'm overlooking something.

Regards,

gwk