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From:Sergei Golubchik Date:November 14 2006 8:44am
Subject:Re: access full-text index
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Hi!

On Nov 13, Rares Vernica wrote:
> I think the full-text index is an inverted index structure. So, it has 
> all the words from the fields it indexes. For each word it has a list of 
> record IDs which have that word.
> 
> I am interested to get is this inverted index structure. I imagine it 
> can be represented as 1-2 table(s). Can I do that? Is the structure 
> accessible as a table? Is the structure accessible in any way? (Of 
> course, I don't want to change it.)

You can do it, but not from SQL, unfortunately.
There's a separate utility myisam_ftdump that allows you to examine
fulltext index, this functionality wasn't integrated into the server
yet.
 
> Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> >On Nov 10, Rares Vernica wrote:
> >>
> >>Is it possible to access the Full-Text Index structures from SQL?
> >
> >Depends on what structures you want to access and how.
> >But generally - no.
> > 
Regards,
Sergei

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access full-text indexRares Vernica10 Nov
  • Re: access full-text indexSergei Golubchik13 Nov
    • Re: access full-text indexRares Vernica14 Nov
      • Re: access full-text indexSergei Golubchik14 Nov