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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:48:13+00:00

I have a FULLTEXT index called cart_product_fti on a table Whenever I use it,

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I have a FULLTEXT index called cart_product_fti on a table

Whenever I use it, I have to list all the fields that are in the index exactly:

MATCH (foo,bar,etc)

My thoughts are, if later I decide to add/remove a field to the index, all the scripts are going to have to be updated or they will be broken.

So I am wondering if there is a way to get a list of all the fields in the index and then insert the list into my MATCH() so it won’t have to be updated if a change is made to the FULLTEXT index?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Possible solutions:

    • Just do the work. A properly structured project probably has just 1 or 2 classes or files with the specific query / datarelation, so it shouldn’t be that much work.

    • Keep on querying information_schema.statistics again and again for every query to build a query dynamically (hardly efficient).

    • Define a stored procedure which searches in the table, in which case altering the table / fulltext index layout would only require you to alter the procedure once.

    Edit: for some reason key_column_usage doesn’t seem to hold a FULLTEXT reference, and we have to resort to the information_schema.statistics table?

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