I'll look at how difficult it might be to add these changes into
TSphinx, as well.  They're pretty much invaluable.

On May 15, 5:20 pm, aitrus <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran into an issue and decided to experiment with having multiple
> indexes in one table--that I could use with thinking sphinx.  When
> doing generic searches, I don't want case sensitivity to be an issue.
> I also want to be able to do partial searches, using asterisks.
>
> However, I also want to do case-sensitive searches against the full,
> literal value of a column.  So, "AbCD*" would only match a search of
> "AbCD*" and not "AbCD" or "AbC*", etc.
>
> Inside my model, if I do two define_index 's, It creates two sources
> (as seen below in my pastie).  However, it only creates one
> index ..._core.  So if I set any conflicting property values in the
> define indexes, it will only use one of them.
>
> In addition, if the two define_index 's do not have the same number of
> records / attributes / etc, Sphinx will error out when trying to index
> them due to a mismatch.  Soo...  I half fixed the issue below, by semi-
> customizing that section in the sphinx.conf.  See here:
>
> http://pastie.org/479699
>
> I had to create two "index ..._core_XX" entries and told the index to
> point at both.  This lets me have two sets of files with a different
> number of attributes and different properties.
>
> One issue, however is now this:
>
> >> GeneralResource.search :conditions => {:profile_name_lit => 
> >> "TSTCERT.xfgyhd"}, :limit => 1
>
> => [nil]
>
> This doesn't happen with every value.  I'm still doing some testing to
> see why (exactly) it will behave like this.
>
> But... I think supporting this would be a very worthwhile change to
> Thinking Sphinx.
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