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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:12:35+00:00

I have a full-text indexed column named resolution. The data in it looks like

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I have a full-text indexed column named resolution. The data in it looks like : 

some row: 480*800 480*848 480*854 600*1024 600*800 720*1280

my SQL doing the full-text search is: 

... MATCH(resolution) AGAINST('480' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

And the above row is returned. It looks to me that the ‘*’ symbol is considered as some kind of delimiter which in my case it shouldn’t be the case. What I wanted is that the row only shows up in SQLs like this:

... MATCH(resolution) AGAINST('480*800' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

what can I do to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    AFAIK, you can’t do it in mysql full text search, as it is not designed for this.

    Quick search leads to this question which is a possible workaround, but would require to alter the data…

    If you’ll consider altering source data – it would probably be best to put it in a separate table with 2 fields (W & H) and one-to-many relationship to your main table; then do a regular “WHERE W = 400” query to achieve what you need.

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