Question

I recently came across a wierd issue with MySQL Fulltext search. My statement is really simple:

SELECT * FROM `mytable` WHERE MATCH (`desc`) AGAINST ('+NOR +710' IN BOOLEAN MODE) 

And this is what in the desc column: “The NOR 710 also has smoke seal …”

For some reason it won’t find that row. I added Fulltext index to that column, mysql version is 5.1.56 , database engine of that table is MyISAM. Is there anything else i need to check?

Thanks

Answer 1

By default, fulltext indexes will ignore words that are shorter than 4 charaters. Adjust your ft_min_word_len to also include the shorter words.