Thank you very much Paul and Keith for your response , I guess I will have to use LIKE clause in SQL statement for searching the records then. Imran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Imran Aziz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: Re: FULL Text Limitation issue!
> On 23 Sep 2003 at 17:07, Imran Aziz wrote: > > > I have come to know that mySQL FULL TEXT search has the limitation > > of the search phrase to be more then 3 charators. In order to > > alter the default behavior one has to alter the variable > > ft_min_word_len. I am running MySQL 3.23.54 and the FULL Text > > search works fine , but I am unable to alter the variable > > ft_min_word_len either using the my.cnf file or by altering the > > variable value on mysql startup. > > The ft_min_word_len variable wasn't introduced until MySQL 4. See > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html > > -- > Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tobacco Documents Online > http://tobaccodocuments.org > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]