My index works really well, almost instant searches over a huge collection of 
large documents. But now I'm trying to enable excerpts, and I don't seem to be 
getting them on my 'contents' concatenated field. Recall the structure:

#content.rb 
belongs_to :title
#has a field called plain containing the plain text of the document, 400 rows 
per instance

#title.rb 
has_many :contents

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
  indexes contents(:plain), :as => :content
  has created_at, updated_at
  where sanitize_sql(["publish", true])
end

I can find anything in contents, but I'm not clear what my syntax would be to 
show excerpts from it in a view.

I have tried title.excerpts.contents and title.excerpts.contents.plain without 
love.

Walter

On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

> THAT seems to be a very good fix. I'm watching a much different light show in 
> the terminal now. 
> 
>       collected 1466 docs, 820.1 MB
> 
> Much better…
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> Walter
> 
> On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Pat Allan wrote:
> 
>> Ah... I really should have noticed that in the index definition. Sorry! And 
>> reading through that again now, contents should be a field, not an attribute 
>> - so switch it from a 'has' to an 'indexes'. That should be the reason why 
>> it hasn't been working.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 07/09/2012, at 8:08 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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