Question

i use this query for a fulltextsearch in my table:

SELECT Titel FROM cmsa WHERE MATCH(Titel) AGAINST ('+"Ort" +"Berlin"' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

but the result is empty.

If i use

SELECT Titel FROM cmsa WHERE Titel LIKE '%Berlin%'

the result would be (without quotes):

"Ort - Berlin"

Why the fulltextsearch didnt find this result. The word “Ort” and the word “Berlin” are both in the field Titel of the entry.

Other fulltext searches works great.

Any Idea?

Answer 1

I guess it is because MySQL has a server parameter – The minimum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT index. Default value for this parameter is 4 so your first word Ort is not included in this index. You should change this system parameter, restart server and then rebuild all FULLTEXT indexes.

REPAIR TABLE cmsa QUICK;

• Change the full text index minimum word length with MySQL