Someone else raised this issue just the other day as well. I'll hopefully have 
some time to create a test app and give it a spin soon, see if I can figure out 
what's causing the problems.

-- 
Pat

On 24/05/2011, at 2:46 AM, sparky wrote:

> I have a model that has acts_as_taggable in 2 contexts
> 
> class Asset < ActiveRecord::Base
>  acts_as_taggable
>  acts_as_taggable_on :categories
> 
> ...
> end
> 
> Basically, I want to maintain a list of tags for the Asset as well as
> a list of catergories.  Both of which I'd like to index.
> 
> When I define the indices,
> 
> I tried
> 
> define_index do
>    indexes tags.name, :as => :categories
>    indexes categories.name, :as => :tags
>  ....
> end
> 
> 
> which generates the following sql..... (relevant snippets shown)
> sql_query = SELECT ...
> GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT IFNULL(`tags`.`name`, '0') SEPARATOR ' ') AS
> `categories`,
> GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT IFNULL(`categories_assets`.`name`, '0')
> SEPARATOR ' ') AS `tags`
> ....
> FROM `assets`
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `taggings` ON `assets`.`id` = `taggings`.`taggable_id`
> AND `taggings`.`taggable_type` = 'Asset'
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `tags` ON taggings.tagger_id IS NULL AND
> taggings.context = 'tags'
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `taggings` `categories_assets_join` ON `assets`.`id` =
> `categories_assets_join`.`taggable_id` AND
> `categories_assets_join`.`taggable_type` = 'Asset' LEFT OUTER JOIN
> `tags` `categories_assets` ON taggings.tagger_id IS NULL AND
> taggings.context = 'categories'
> 
> 
> The problem is here 2 fold it looks like.  In the joins, it joins on
> the tagging tables twice,  and in the join to the actual tags table,
> it doesn't specify the tag.id so I get a massively cartesian query
> that takes forever to run and indexes the wrong data.
> 
> 
> What I think the from clause should look like is more like
> 
> 
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `taggings` ON `assets`.`id` =
> `taggings`.`taggable_id` AND `taggings`.`taggable_type` = 'Asset'
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `tags` category_tags ON taggings.context =
> 'categories' and taggings.tag_id = category_tags.id
> LEFT OUTER JOIN `tags` tag_tags ON taggings.context = 'tags' and
> taggings.tag_id = tag_tags.id
> 
> 
> So my question is the following.  What's the best way to fix the
> indexing query?  Should I try and figure out how the sql is being
> generated and submit a patch?  Should i disabled the ts:config and
> handwrite the config or have I missed a way to pass in my own indexing
> query into sphinx.yml so that I can free regenerate the config file
> but use my query.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> s.park
> 
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