I did read that and added the recommended flag to my index definition. It 
doesn't seem to result in a working content index, though. Can you see anything 
I've left out of my index? Is there a need to add an indexes line and a has 
line?

Thanks,

Walter

On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Pat Allan wrote:

> Hi Walter
> 
> If you're trying to match on words deep in the contents field, then you may 
> need to have a read through this part of the docs:
> http://pat.github.com/ts/en/common_issues.html#mysql_large_fields
> 
> If you're not seeing results returned when searching on the title field, then 
> that's probably a different matter. Either way, let me know how you go.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Pat
> 
> On 07/09/2012, at 5:44 PM, Walter Davis wrote:
> 
>> I have the following relationships:
>> 
>> Title has_many :contents
>> Content belongs_to :title
>> 
>> In title.rb, I have the following index declaration:
>> 
>>  define_index do
>>    set_property :group_concat_max_len => 10.megabytes
>> 
>>    indexes :title, :sortable => true
>>    indexes teaser
>>    indexes role.person(:name), :as => :author, :sortable => true
>>    has contents(:plain), :as => :contents
>>    has created_at, updated_at
>>    where sanitize_sql(["publish", true])
>>  end
>> 
>> When I run the index, it appears to work:
>> 
>> indexing index 'title_core'...
>> WARNING: collect_hits: mem_limit=0 kb too low, increasing to 14880 kb
>> collected 1466 docs, 0.6 MB
>> collected 3668728 attr values
>> WARNING: sort_mva: merge_block_size=8 kb too low, increasing mem_limit may 
>> improve performance
>> sorted 7.3 Mvalues, 100.0% done
>> sorted 0.1 Mhits, 100.0% done
>> total 1466 docs, 560458 bytes
>> total 62.465 sec, 8972 bytes/sec, 23.46 docs/sec
>> skipping non-plain index 'title'...
>> total 445634 reads, 0.159 sec, 0.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg
>> total 1836 writes, 0.092 sec, 34.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg
>> Started successfully (pid 17630).
>> 
>> But searches do not match any of the content strings.
>> 
>> When I run the generated query directly in SQL:
>> 
>> SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE `titles`.`id` * CAST(4 AS SIGNED) + 3 AS `id` , 
>> `titles`.`title` AS `title`, `titles`.`teaser` AS `teaser`, `people`.`name` 
>> AS `author`, `titles`.`id` AS `sphinx_internal_id`, 0 AS `sphinx_deleted`, 
>> 3942078319 AS `class_crc`, IFNULL('Title', '') AS `sphinx_internal_class`, 
>> IFNULL(`titles`.`title`, '') AS `title_sort`, IFNULL(`people`.`name`, '') AS 
>> `author_sort`, GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT IFNULL(`contents`.`plain`, '0') 
>> SEPARATOR ' ') AS `contents`, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`titles`.`created_at`) AS 
>> `created_at`, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`titles`.`updated_at`) AS `updated_at` FROM 
>> `titles` LEFT OUTER JOIN `roles` ON `roles`.`id` = `titles`.`role_id` LEFT 
>> OUTER JOIN `people` ON `people`.`id` = `roles`.`person_id` LEFT OUTER JOIN 
>> `contents` ON `contents`.`title_id` = `titles`.`id` WHERE (`titles`.`id` >= 
>> $start AND `titles`.`id` <= $end AND publish) GROUP BY `titles`.`id` ORDER 
>> BY NULL
>> 
>> I get some genuinely odd results in the contents column. This may be an 
>> artifact of Sequel Pro, but the column doesn't appear to be very large at 
>> all, at most there are a dozen lines of text, some just include a single 0 
>> character. The contents table includes thousands of rows of data and each 
>> row has up to 400 lines of text in it. When concatenated, these composite 
>> contents range from 300K to 8MB per title.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest a way to go here? Is there a better way to index text 
>> (XML) documents than slurping out their content into MySQL so that Sphinx 
>> can index them?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Walter
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