[rt-users] Manual for Full-text search

[Alex Vandiver]

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:52 +0000, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> I am currently evaluating RT4 on our RT test-server. I noticed that
> improved fulltext-search is one of the things mentioned in the release
> notes, and I can also see some settings regarding FullTextSearch in
> RT_Config.pm.
> 
> Is there any documentation on how to setup and use this feature? It
> would be very useful to us. 

We will be shipping much-improved documentation on the full-text
searching in RT 4.0.1.  There is also a sizable bug which prevents it
from working on MySQL in RT 4.0.0, which we hope to resolve quickly
enough to also land in RT 4.0.1.

> We are using MySQL 5.0

The updated documentation will also make clear that as MySQL does not
include built-in full-text search capabilities, we rely on the external
Sphinx FTS tool.  Unfortunately, the SphinxSE engine which allows us to
make FTS queries from within MySQL requires recompiling MySQL.  You can
find complete instructions on how to do this at 
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/2.0.1/sphinxse-installing.html

 - Alex