ft_min_word_len unrecognized on Red Hat >= 9

Tyler tyler at cryptio.net
Mon Jun 21 18:14:37 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:07:32PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> >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.

What's the point of indexing those words if it doesn't have an effect on
search speed? Just because you can? :P

tyler



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