On 01/07/2009, at 11:09 AM, Josh K wrote:

> I will try and put a patch together soon, but could you answer two
> quick questions, does it affect the query at all if the MVA is
> Distinct or not?

I'm not sure if Sphinx or MySQL/PostgreSQL is faster at filtering out  
duplicates, but it doesn't matter either way.

> and is it better to use commas as the separators or
> spaces?

Commas are required as separators for MVAs.

Cheers

-- 
Pat

> On Jul 1, 4:30 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's kinda-expected behaviour. Sphinx doesn't handle date MVA's, only
>> integers. Of course, dates are stored as timestamp integers, so
>> there's no reason for it not to work in theory. It's a known bug, and
>> if you'd like to submit a patch to fix it, that'd be fantastic :)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 01/07/2009, at 9:59 AM, Josh K wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I am building a small app which has two main models, Productions and
>>> Performances. The performances model has start and end datetime  
>>> info,
>>> while the production is kind of a grouping.
>>
>>> Anyhow, as I was putting together a sphinx query for the  
>>> production I
>>> noticed that
>>
>>>  has performances(:start), :as => :performance_start
>>
>>> was creating incorrect sql for the sql query in the conf file.  
>>> Instead
>>> of creating a concat list of unix timestamps, it was just using the
>>> datetimes with no converting eg.
>>
>>> GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT `performances`.`start` SEPARATOR ' ') AS
>>> `performance_start`
>>
>>> This was fixed by using :type => :datetime (although it took me a
>>> while to find this solution, the problem solving took me longer),  
>>> but
>>> the concat is using spaces as separators instead of commas, unlike
>>> other concat lists of ids, although I don't know if this is a  
>>> problem
>>> or not.
>>
>>> Is this a bug which I should log an issue or submit a patch for?  
>>> or is
>>> this expected behavior?
>>
>>> Thanks a bundle
>>
>>> Josh
> >


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