hi pat,

Thank you for your suggestion. It worked very well after changing the
syntax as you suggested!
 I have another question regarding performance.  Each sphinx query is
taking an average of 1.5 seconds to complete. Is there any performance
tuning guideline/parameters in sphinx ? I could not find one in the
sphinx documentation. I have about 10 Million  rows in the DB and my
index size is 2.5gb.  (db size is 5gb. )

regards
madhu


On Jan 21, 10:41 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Madhu
>
> For these kinds of queries, you will need to use the extended match mode - 
> although this is implicit when you use :conditions... though for the logic 
> you want, that isn't really an option, because you want matches in either 
> field_1 *or* field_2 and field_5.
>
> It's also worth noting that ANDs are implicit in Sphinx, and OR's are pipes. 
> So maybe the following will work:
>
>   Article.search "(@field_1 word1 word2) | (@field_2 (word3 | word4) @field_5 
> (word5 | word6))", :match_mode => :extended
>
> And yes, you will need to escape @'s in your query words using \'s.
>
> Have a look at Sphinx's extended matching docs for more 
> examples:http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#extended-syntax
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 22/01/2010, at 7:00 AM, madhu wrote:
>
> > i am new to TS and just planning to shift from ferret to sphinx for
> >performancereason. One thing i like about aaf+ferret is, its powerful
> > query language.
>
> > Is it possible to pass 'native sphinx queries' as is in TS instead of
> > constructing it using ':conditons' or ':with'. I am not able to
> > construct the query from TS otherwise.
>
> > This is the pseudo query i want to construct :
> > select everthing from my_table where ((( field_1 contains "word1 AND
> > word2") OR (field_2 contains "word3 OR word4")) AND (field_5 contails
> > "word5 OR word6")) AND status = "active"
>
> > writing this format doesn't seems to be working :
>
> > Article.search '((@field_1 word1 AND word2) OR (@field_2 word3 OR
> > word4) AND (@field_5 word5 OR word6)) AND @status active'
>
> > also what if, any of search strings are "@word2" is 'word2' will
> > escaping work ? that is '\...@word2' ?
>
> > appreciate your help
>
> > tx
> > madhu
>
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