Hi Matt

What you're after is something like this:

  has "IF(price > 0.0, 0, 1)", :as => :free, :type => :boolean

This should work in MySQL, I'm not sure if PostgreSQL's IF statement follows 
the same syntax.

Cheers

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Pat

On 20/08/2010, at 5:18 AM, crazy_matt wrote:

> I remember seeing somewhere an example of creating a Sphinx attribute
> using an IF() function. The function basically used comparative
> operators on numbers in the database so that the Sphinx index just
> contained a boolean true/false value for faceting. I can't seem to
> find it anywhere so I'm hoping someone here can enlighten me.
> 
> What I want to do is facet on FREE vs. PAID and I want to use the
> decimal "price" field in my database. Any ideas how I would set that
> up in define_index?
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