Rightio - for anyone else coming across this, the full index needs write 
privileges (to update the delta flag). Delta indexes can get by on just read 
access, I'm pretty sure - and full index too if you're not using deltas.

-- 
Pat

On 27/08/2011, at 3:36 AM, Garrett Dimon wrote:

> No need to reply to this one. We've gone ahead and switched away from
> using the slave DB for indexing. It got to the point where the changes
> necessary were outweighing the performance benefits.
> 
> 
> On Aug 25, 11:19 am, Garrett Dimon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We're in the process of switching Sphinx over to do indexing from the
>> slave DB based on this blog post...
>> 
>> http://www.mendable.com/2010/05/31/thinking-sphinx-performance-index-...
>> 
>> However, we've been running delayed deltas, and it appears that the
>> database user needs more than select access in order to manage the
>> delta flags. Since it's a slave db, we obviously don't want to enable
>> any write access.
>> 
>> I had kind of expected this, but before we ditch delayed deltas, I
>> wanted to follow up and make sure that there wasn't a great solution
>> out there that I was missing.
>> 
>> I'm guessing we should just use Datetime Deltas or simply increase our
>> indexing frequency. We're currently running full indexes 4 times a
>> day, but we could bump that up to hourly without any problems on the
>> new setup. Indexing is now running entirely on its own job server
>> (along with a few other background processing things), so it's not too
>> big of a deal to just increase our indexing frequency.
>> 
>> Any recommendations would be appreciated. :)
> 
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