On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:36:39 +0200, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > This was asked some times, and today a new interesting use case was > proposed on the forums: > https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1012360 > > I usually tell the whole story "distinct is not fit for fulltext... > use the relational queries" I've seen the post and answered saying pretty much what you just said. > but since it's often requested (on > Infinispan Query too) and I just realized that in fact we could > implement it as the needed information is in the index, and we could > efficiently extract it and wrap in a nice and easy API. As I see it, it is a special case of projection. Maybe there could be an additional option to the 'setProjection' call. Btw, how is this information available?

From the IndexReader you can iterate a specific field's values; that's

> Shall I open a JIRA for this? Likely for 4.1 I would say, for now I'm > just collecting opinion if we should support this, and if somebody has > an idea of how such an API should look like. I think it is worth an issue, since it is a very typical usecase.

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