Fulltext + order by strategy

2004-12-22 Thread Aleksandr Guidrevitch
Hi there, Is there any common strategy (of using indexes) to avoid filesorts while sorting searches by a field ? Eg. I want fulltext search, then sort results by some other table field. For example .: create table article ( id int not null primary key auto_increment, sort1 int not null,

Re: Fulltext + order by strategy

2004-12-22 Thread SGreen
Since you are already splitting your data into fulltext columns and other data I would keep that design. Others on the list have greatly improved their performance by running their tables in this same fashion. If by some chance your non-fulltext columns are all fixed width, there is another

Re: Fulltext + order by strategy

2004-12-22 Thread Aleksandr Guidrevitch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are already splitting your data into fulltext columns and other data I would keep that design. Others on the list have greatly improved their performance by running their tables in this same fashion. If by some chance your non-fulltext columns are all fixed