diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index dca1dd264a3..dcd102fc54d 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ Bug Fixes
   prior to the float value.
   (Markus Jelsma, hossman)
 
+* SOLR-2662: When Solr is configured to have no queryResultCache, the
+  "start" parameter was not honored and the documents returned were
+   0 through start+offset.  (Markus Jelsma, yonik)
+
+
+
  Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrIndexSearcher.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrIndexSearcher.java
index 513fcab7b09..c60eaeb8f86 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrIndexSearcher.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrIndexSearcher.java
@@ -1151,10 +1151,9 @@ public class SolrIndexSearcher extends IndexSearcher implements SolrInfoMBean {
         getDocListNC(qr,cmd);
         //Parameters: cmd.getQuery(),theFilt,cmd.getSort(),0,supersetMaxDoc,cmd.getFlags(),cmd.getTimeAllowed(),responseHeader);
       }
-      if (key != null) {
-        superset = out.docList;
-        out.docList = superset.subset(cmd.getOffset(),cmd.getLen());
-      }
+
+      superset = out.docList;
+      out.docList = superset.subset(cmd.getOffset(),cmd.getLen());
     }
 
     // lastly, put the superset in the cache if the size is less than or equal
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestFiltering.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestFiltering.java
index da23d148c6e..f9c3b310c18 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestFiltering.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestFiltering.java
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ public class TestFiltering extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
     );
     assertEquals(0, DelegatingCollector.setLastDelegateCount - prevCount);
 
+    // test that offset works when not caching main query
+    assertJQ(req("q","{!cache=false}*:*", "start","2", "rows","1", "sort","val_i asc", "fl","val_i")
+        ,"/response/docs==[{'val_i':3}]"
+    );
 
   }