That is indeed correct.

On 23 Aug 2014, at 12:03 pm, Yi Lin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks I will checkout that setting. So if I set it to false, then "index 
> resource" is not created, in that case, is Resource.search smart enough to 
> look at "index resource_core" to perform the search? 
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Yi
>> 
>> Distributed indices are useful if you have multiple indices for a model, and 
>> want to search across all of those at once. It is not a super common 
>> use-case, though.
>> 
>> If you want to disable distributed indices you can by setting 
>> `distributed_indices: false` for each environment in 
>> `config/thinking_sphinx.yml` - this setting was introduced in TS v3.1.1.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 23 Aug 2014, at 7:54 am, Yi Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Regarding distributed index, why is it necessary in 
>>> ThinkingSphinx-generated sphinx.conf? 
>>> 
>>> Specifically, I am referring to this block (my indexed class is called 
>>> Resource): 
>>> 
>>> index resource
>>> {
>>> }
>>> 
>>> If I remove the above, and just have:
>>> 
>>> index resource_core
>>> {
>>> ...
>>> }
>>> 
>>> would ThinkingSphinx.search still work? Why is the distributed index 
>>> necessary in the first place?
>>> 
>>> Yi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, June 21, 2008 1:17:38 PM UTC-7, Pat Allan wrote:
>>> This is an email just to highlight something that isn't actually an  
>>> error, but trips a lot of people up (myself included).
>>> When you run an index on your data, you may get the following error  
>>> message:
>>> > distributed index 'model_name' can not be directly indexed; skipping
>>> 
>>> A distributed index is made up of other indexes. It doesn't need to be  
>>> indexed, but Sphinx tries to anyway, and then complains when it can't.  
>>> I'm not sure about the reasoning for this, but it's not important: You  
>>> can ignore the error, it doesn't stop anything working, searching and  
>>> indexing will happen as expected.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Pat
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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