ft_min_word_len unrecognized on Red Hat >= 9

[David Miller]

Tyler wrote:

> The install doc doesn't mention this requirement; in fact, it says:

We need to get a note on that in the docs saying the setting is only 
available in 4.x and what the side effects are in 3.23 without it (as 
mentioned below:

> "You need MySQL version 3.23.41 or higher."
> 
> What will the effect of not having this property be? The install docs
> say only this:
> 
> "This causes a lot of Bugzilla specific words to be missed, including
> "cc", "ftp" and "uri"."
> 
> Since it's index related, i'm guessing it will make some searches
> slower, but will it in fact break stuff?

It won't affect the search speed at all.  As noted, without it, words 
with fewer than 4 characters won't get indexed.  In 3.23.x, you couldn't 
change the minimum word size for full text indexing, it was always 4 
characters.  In 4.x you can change the minimum word size using that setting.

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