Hi! On Oct 02, Thomas Deliduka wrote: > For MySQL Full-text Searches and indexes. Do these indexes take up a lot of > disk space? > > Any information on this out there as to how much on average?
In default configuration (that is without changing myisam/ftdefs.h) index can be as big as original text - on real world texts (that is with commas, quotes, spaces, etc.) about 50-70% of the original text. Regards, Sergei -- MySQL Development Team __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Sergei Golubchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com/ /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Osnabrueck, Germany <___/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
