Question

I have a table with 1/2 million phrases and I am doing word matching using this query:

SELECT * FROM `searchIndex` WHERE `indexData` RLIKE '[[:<:]]Hirt'

The indexData field has a FULLTEXT index and is datatype longtext.

I want to match on items like

“Alois M. Hirt”

“Show Biz – Al Hirt, in a new role, …”

“Al Hirt’s Sinatraville open 9 p…”

“Hirt will be playing…”

and not on “shirt” or “thirteen” or “thirty” etc.

The query is succeeding but it frequently takes 3 seconds to return and I wondered if there was a better, more efficient way of doing this word boundary match?

If I were to add another index to indexData what would be the correct keylength to use?

TIA

Answer 1

setsuna‘s answer worked very well:

SELECT * FROM searchIndex WHERE MATCH (indexData) AGAINST (‘Hirt*’ IN BOOLEAN MODE);