Question

I have a bog standard MySQL fulltext query as follows:

SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE MATCH(first_name, username) AGAINST ('stringhere')

The problem is, it can’t find the fulltext index on the field first_name, even though I’ve indexed it a few times now. It works fine when I do this:

SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE MATCH(username) AGAINST ('stringhere')

Or this:

SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE MATCH(first_name) AGAINST ('stringhere')

But not with two or more fields. What am I doing wrong here? I’ve made sure the indexes are set on the fields, and I’ve even REPAIRed the table, but still no worky 🙁

I get this result when using more than one field:

Error in query: Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list

Which is confusing and irritating because, like I said, I have definitely defined the fulltext index.

Thanks for any help,

James

Answer 1

It would be useful to see the output of

show create table accounts

I suppose that you have something like

FULLTEXT(first_name)
FULLTEXT(username)

instead of

FULLTEXT(first_name,username)