----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ari Denison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: Full Text Stopwords


> Hello list -
>     I'm trying to do a full text search for the the string "May" using
> the following query:
>
> SELECT * FROM students WHERE MATCH(first_name) AGAINST("May");
>
> There are a number of students in that table wit the first_name of May.
> And, yes, I've removed may from the stopwords list and have reindexed
> the field but still return no records.
>
> Any idea how to get my May students to show in full text search results?
>
If the number of students named "May" is more than 50% of the rows, I
believe "May" automatically becomes a new stopword. This is apparently
standard behaviour for MySQL.

Rhino


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