Question

I have the default User model in django as per below:

delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `auth_user` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `username` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    `first_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    `last_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    `email` varchar(75) NOT NULL,
    `password` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
    `is_staff` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
    `is_active` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
    `is_superuser` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
    `last_login` datetime NOT NULL,
    `date_joined` datetime NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `username` (`username`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=26 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$

I tried to add full text searching by alter table 'auth_user' add fulltext(first_name), last_name, email), and I keep getting the error Error Code: 1214. The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes. Is there a reason why this doesn’t support full text searching? I’m thinking it may be because I extended the model and added my own table?

Answer 1

Fulltext indices only work on MyISAM tables, and yours is InnoDB. source