Hi Greg

Try defining your alias as a symbol - :as => :name.

That said, if the column is called what you want the field to be  
called (as it is in this case), you don't need the alias at all.

Cheers

-- 
Pat

On 18/06/2009, at 3:22 PM, Greg Weber wrote:

>
> setup in Model
> define_index do
>  indexes :name, :as => 'name', :sortable => true
> end
>
> config file snippet
> sql_query = SELECT `model`.`id` * 2 + 0 AS `id` , CAST(`model`.`name`
> AS CHAR) AS `name_sort`, ...
>
> expected config file snippet
> sql_query = SELECT `model`.`id` * 2 + 0 AS `id` , CAST(`model`.`name`
> AS CHAR) AS `name`, ...
>
> The problem only occurs when using the :as option. Would you like me
> to file a bug on github?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> On Jun 13, 9:45 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Greg
>>
>> I'm afraid I'm not really understanding what the issue you're having
>> is. Can you provide a bit more information, and maybe the contents of
>> your define_index block?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 12/06/2009, at 11:20 AM, Greg Weber wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> The sql that TS generates for my sortable string column should look
>>> like
>>> CAST(`value` AS CHAR) AS `value` ... IFNULL(`value`, '') AS
>>> `value_sort`
>>
>>> but I end up with 2 _sorts - the CAST part gives a _sort:
>>> CAST(`value` AS CHAR) AS `value_sort`
>>
>>> I have had this problem with a very old version of sphinx and on the
>>> latest. I solve this now with a regex post-processing.
> >


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