ft_min_word_len unrecognized on Red Hat >= 9

[David Miller]

Tyler wrote:

> 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

Guess I should clarify that...  on 3.23 it won't have an effect.  Yes, 
on 4.0, the lower you drop that number, the longer it'll take to run 
searches on it (because the index will be bigger).  The speed difference 
doesn't seem to be a whole lot on bugzilla.mozilla.org though.

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