Thanks Pat. I came to the conclusion that I didn't really have a good reason to make min_prefix_length > 1 for my current task. However knowing I can set this on a per-model basis is extremely helpful as I'm anticipating a need for additional search tasks within my current application.
Mark. On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:14:10 AM UTC-6, Pat Allan wrote: > > Hi Mark > > As far as I know, such an approach isn’t possible with Sphinx - each word > gets fed through the indexing process separately. If index size/search > speed is a concern, you can apply prefixing to certain indices or fields, > but customising length on a per-field basis is not possible. > > If you only want indexing enabled for specific indices, put something like > the following within the index definition block: > > set_property :min_prefix_len => 3 > > If you only want certain fields, then *add* the following option to the > fields within an index definition block (min_prefix_len is required either > in the definition or in config/thinking_sphinx.yml): > > indexes name, :prefixes => true > > But yeah, to come back to the question you actually asked: pretty sure > it’s not possible, though people on the Sphinx forum could certainly know > tricks I don’t - http://sphinxsearch.com/forum/index.html > > Cheers > > — > Pat > > On 1 Jan 2014, at 5:57 pm, Mark Thomson <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I have prefix matching set up with min_prefix_len = 3. > > Search term "Inter" matches "International Trade", as does > 'International'. However 'International Tr' does not. So it seems that the > prefix length is applied on a word by word basis, not to the phrase as a > whole. > > Is there any way around this? > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
