: What could cause a facet query on a field (say 'name') differ in count : from a basic query on the field using the same value?
lots of things are possible -- largely related to how your field is analyzed. you need to show us the relavent sections from your schema.xml (the field and fieldtype), full URLs will all of hte query params (rows=0 is usually suitable for questions just about result counts and facet counts), and the output you get from those URLs ... ideally with debugQuery=true so we can see exactly how it's getting parsed. -Hoss
