andy,
Sunday, May 19, 2002, 7:06:00 PM, you wrote:
a> I am wondering if it would be anyhow possible to make a search on a mysql
a> textfield faster. Right now the table contains 294000 entries and takes
a> about 40 MB of space. Is there a way to apply a index with a resonable
a> amount of disk space?
For TEXT column you can index only prefix of the column.
a> I am also not so sure if I should use text or
a> smalltext columns as the info may vary between 1 and 1000 chars. A query for
a> LIKE 'test%' takes about 20 s right now.
There is no SMALLTEXT column type in MySQL :) There are TINYTEXT,
TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT.
TINYTEXT allows to store L+1 bytes, where L < 256 bytes. So
it's not quite enough for you ...
Take a look at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/n/o/node_369.html
You can find info about storage requirements there.
a> Thanx for any help on that,
a> Andy
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