Thanks, Pat, that's a great tip and I'll add that to my logging code
directly.  Will also pop over to the Sphinx group and ask for help
there.

Cheers,

Chris

On Jul 9, 8:41 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> Unfortunately, I've never seen this problem before... it's certainly an odd 
> one. I know it's probably hard to reproduce, but if you can log what the 
> value of Model.search(args).results is, that'd be fantastic - as that's the 
> raw Sphinx results (as a bundle of hashes and arrays), and should confirm 
> whether the problem is happening in TS or Sphinx - though I'm pretty certain 
> it's the latter.
>
> It's probably worth searching/asking on the Sphinx forums as 
> well:http://sphinxsearch.com/forum/forum.html?id=1
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 09/07/2010, at 4:48 PM, Chris McCann wrote:
>
> > We're having an issue in a Rails 2.3.5 app with thinking_sphinx 1.3.16
> > in terms of inconsistent search results for the same inputs to TS.
> > We're using MySQL 5.1.41.
>
> > I've checked the parameters passed into the model's .search() method
> > on every call.  With identical inputs the correct results are usually
> > returned, but on occasion some of the expected results will be
> > missing.  This is on a development database that only I am hitting, so
> > there's nothing happening to the underlying data between these search
> > calls.
>
> > The development log also shows that sphinx is returning different
> > results from the same inputs (my debug statements prefaced with >>>):
>
> >>>> search_options    => {:page=>1, :per_page=>10, :sort_mode=>:desc, 
> >>>> :order=>"created_at", :with=>{:specialty_ids=>[29], :location_ids=>[6, 
> >>>> 2, 3, 4, 5]}}
>
> >  Sphinx   Querying: ''
> >  Sphinx (0.002381s)   Found 4 results
>
> >>>> search_options    => {:page=>1, :per_page=>10, :sort_mode=>:desc, 
> >>>> :order=>"created_at", :with=>{:specialty_ids=>[29], :location_ids=>[6, 
> >>>> 2, 3, 4, 5]}}
>
> >  Sphinx   Querying: ''
> >  Sphinx (0.002279s)   Found 0 results
>
> > We are using the :retry_stale => true setting as well.
>
> > I'm at a loss for how to spelunk into the thinking_sphinx code to sort
> > out what's going wrong.  If anyone has seen this behavior I'd love to
> > hear what you did to fix or investigate it.  If not, any suggestions
> > for a way forward to sort this out would be much appreciated.
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Chris
>
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