Kevin, are you sure that your 2 and 3 letter words do not appear in more than half of all rows? That would exclude them from the search.
Thomas On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kevin Lewandowski wrote: > Hi, Sergei. > > In myisam/ftdefs.h I changed: > > #define MIN_WORK_LEN 4 > > to: > > #define MIN_WORD_LEN 2 > > and I commented out the line: > > #define COMPILE_STOPWORDS_IN > (this should leave out stopwords right?) > > There were no changes to ftstatic.c > > recompile, reinstall, restart mysql. > > To test I dropped and recreated the fulltext index on the existing > table. Fulltext search didn't find any 2 or 3 character words. > > I also created a new table (from the articles example in the mysql > manual) and that didn't see any 2 or 3 character words either. > > thanks > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 09:18 AM, Sergei Golubchik wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > On Nov 18, Kevin Lewandowski wrote: > >> I'm using mysql fulltext indexes and want them to see words of 2 or > >> more characters, and no stopwords. I've edited the appropriate files > >> (ftdefs.h, ft_static.c), then recompile, install, restart mysql, > >> rebuild indexes, and there is no change. It still uses a minimum of 4 > >> characters). I'm using mysql 3.23.52-max. Am I missing something? Can > >> anyone help? > > > > What changes, exactly did you make in ftdefs.h and ft_static.c ? > > How did you test, whether 2-char words are indexed or not ? > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > ________________ > Kevin Lewandowski > Discogs - http://www.discogs.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
