Yup, Menno's patch is merged, and also, there's a group_concat_max_len  
setting in Thinking Sphinx if you want to set it higher in MySQL while  
indexing.

The latter isn't ideal, but Menno's solution is pretty fantastic.

-- 
Pat

On 09/03/2009, at 5:41 PM, James Healy wrote:

>
> Christian Niles wrote:
>> As part of my research into my previous question about MVAs and  
>> cached IDs,
>> I noticed that TS uses GROUP_CONCAT to assemble the list of integer  
>> IDs in a
>> case like this:
>>
>>  has users(:id)
>>
>> I know from a previous bug in another project that GROUP_CONCAT  
>> silently
>> truncates the result string if it exceeds the  
>> 'group_concat_max_len' system
>> variable, which defaults to 1024 characters. This is probably fine  
>> for most
>> cases, but if you exceed that limit, you'll get invalid data.
>>
>> This is just an FYI, rather than a bug report or feature request.
>
> Thanks for highlighting this issue, imho it's useful to have such data
> archived on google groups.
>
> Menno van der Sman proposed a patch that (I think) resolves this issue
> last month, although I'm not sure what stage Pat is at with merging it
> into his mainline repository.  Hopefully it will be merged soon if it
> hasn't been already.
>
> See the discussion here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/94bec92a0c401136/
>
> -- James Healy <jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com>  Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:30:54  
> +1100
>
> >


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