Gotcha, cheers Pat. And keep up the awesome work. The support you
provide is second to none.

Shaun

On Jan 13, 12:21 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Shaun
>
> Sorry, I'm pretty flat out at the moment (and about to go overseas for a few 
> weeks), so support is a little haphazard currently.
>
> I think what you want to do is grouping - sphinx_select is really only for 
> adding extra attributes to what gets returned in the raw Sphinx results. 
> Grouping, on the other hand, returns one match for each group - and you can 
> group by any of your 
> attributes.http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/searching.html#grouping
>
> Hope this helps
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 13/01/2010, at 1:10 PM, Shaun wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello again
>
> > Has anyone got some pointers for me or am I asking a daft question?
>
> > Thanks again
>
> > Shaun
>
> > On Jan 12, 12:07 pm, Shaun <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hello
>
> >> Is there a way to display only distinct records? For some reason or
> >> another I have duplicates in my database but the duplicates have
> >> individual ID's. I was using :select DISTINCT field1, field2 etc with
> >> AR, but how do I do the same with TS?
>
> >> I have tried using sphinx_select as you have documented on your 
> >> blog:http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/a_month_in_the_life_of_thinking_sphinx
>
> >> but I get this error:
>
> >> searchd error (status: 1): select: syntax error, unexpected SEL_TOKEN,
> >> expecting $end or ',' near 'tl, st, cns1')
>
> >> which is pointing to my search query.
>
> >> Is it at all possible to use something like Active Record's :select to
> >> avoid displaying duplicates? Maybe i've missed something in the
> >> syntax?
>
> >> Many thanks for your time.
>
> >> Shaun
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