Additionally it helps to alleviate issues with stale data in the search index (which is often updated periodically ). If you have a list of ids to query for, th

Additionally it helps to alleviate issues with stale data in the search index (which is often updated periodically ). If you have a list of ids to query for, there's no harm if one of them is no longer in the db, you just won't show it. As ever, it's a tradeoff. I used to keep everything required in for search results pages in the search index (solr, at the time). Eventually I decided that the additional db lookup was well worth the extra few milliseconds to make sure I was working with reliable data.