Re: Fulltext doesn't seem to find certain text

[Mike Blezien]

mos wrote:
> At 01:54 PM 9/14/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> If I perform a fulltext search for 'foo', it won't match text like
>> 'foo, inc'.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Mysql 3.23.52
> 
> 
> Joe,
>         By default MySQL has a 4 letter minimum for fulltext searches; 
> words must be at least 4 letters in length otherwise they won't get 
> added. Since you are using MySQL 3.23, you will need to recompile the 
> binaries. With MySQL 4.x, you can simply change a variable in the 
> configuration file and rebuild the fulltext indexes.
> 
> Mike
> 

What variable setting is changed in the my.cnf, and is this under the mysqld 
group ??

What is the proceedure to rebuild the FT indexes and the changes are made ??

TIA

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