As I understand from looking at 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/login.jsp?os_destination=/browse/SOLR-236 field 
collapsing has been disabled on multi-valued fields. Is this really necessary?

Let's say I have a multi-valued field, 'my-mv-field'. I have a query like 
(my-mv-field:1 OR my-mv-field:5) that returns docs with the following values 
for 'my-mv-field':

Doc1: 1, 2, 3,
Doc2: 1, 3
Doc3: 2, 4, 5, 6
Doc4: 1

If I collapse on that field with that query I imagine it should mean 'collect 
the docs, starting from the top, so that I find 1 and 5'. In this case if it 
returned Doc1 and Doc3 I would be happy.

There must be some ambiguity or implementation detail I am unaware that is 
preventing this. It may be a critical piece of functionality for an application 
I'm working on, so I'm curious if there is point in pursuing development of 
this functionality or if I am missing something.

Thanks,
Kallin Nagelberg

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