> I would like get the total count of the facet.field response values I'm pretty sure there's no way to get Solr to do that -- other than not setting a facet.limit, getting every value back in the response, and counting them yourself (not feasible for very large counts). I've looked at trying to patch Solr to do it, because I could really use it too; it's definitely possible, but made trickier because there are now several different methods that Solr can use to do facetting, with separate code paths. It seems like an odd omission to me too.
Jonathan