3 Full text indexing in RT
7 While all of the below solutions can search for Unicode characters, they
8 are not otherwise Unicode aware, and do no case folding, normalization,
9 or the like. That is, a string that contains C<U+0065 LATIN SMALL
10 LETTER E> followed by C<U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT> will not match a
11 search for C<U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE>. They also only
12 know how to tokenize C<latin-1>-ish languages where words are separated
13 by whitespace or similar characters; as such, support for searching for
14 Japanese and Chinese content is extremely limited.
18 =head2 Creating and configuring the index
20 Postgres 8.3 and above support full-text searching natively; to set up
21 the required C<ts_vector> column, and create either a C<GiN> or C<GiST>
24 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index
26 If you have a non-standard database administrator username or password,
27 you may need to pass the C<--dba> or C<--dba-password> options:
29 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index --dba postgres --dba-password secret
31 This will also output an appropriate C<%FullTextSearch> configuration to
32 add to your F<RT_SiteConfig.pm>; you will need to restart your webserver
33 after making these changes. However, the index will also need to be
34 filled before it can be used. To update the index initially, run:
36 sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer --all
38 This will tokenize and index all existing attachments in your database;
39 it may take quite a while if your database already has a large number of
42 =head2 Updating the index
44 To keep the index up-to-date, you will need to run:
46 sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer
48 ...at regular intervals. By default, this will only tokenize up to 100
49 tickets at a time; you can adjust this upwards by passing
50 C<--limit 500>. Larger batch sizes will take longer and
51 consume more memory. Care should be taken to ensure that multiple
52 instances of C<rt-fulltext-indexer> are not run at the same time.
56 MySQL does not support full-text indexing natively. However, it does
57 integrate with the external Sphinx engine, available from
58 L<http://sphinxsearch.com>. Unfortunately, Sphinx integration (using
59 SphinxSE) does require that you recompile MySQL from source. Most
60 distribution-provided packages for MySQL do not include SphinxSE
61 integration, merely the external Sphinx tools; these are not sufficient
64 =head2 Compiling MySQL and SphinxSE
66 SphinxSE requires MySQL 5.0 or 5.1; later versions of MySQL have not
67 been tested at this time. Sphinx version 2.0.1 has been tested to work,
68 but version 0.9.9 may work as well. Compilation and installation
69 instructions for MySQL with SphinxSE can be found at
70 L<http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxse-installing>.
72 =head2 Creating and configuring the index
74 Once MySQL has been recompiled with SphinxSE, and Sphinx itself is
75 installed, you may create the required SphinxSE communication table via:
77 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index
79 If you have a non-standard database administrator username or password,
80 you may need to pass the C<--dba> or C<--dba-password> options:
82 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index --dba root --dba-password secret
84 This will also provide you with the appropriate C<%FullTextSearch>
85 configuration to add to your F<RT_SiteConfig.pm>; you will need to
86 restart your webserver after making these changes. It will also print a
87 sample Sphinx configuration, which should be placed in
88 F</etc/sphinx.conf>, or equivalent.
90 To fill the index, you will need to run the C<indexer> command-line tool
95 Finally, start the Sphinx search daemon:
99 =head2 Updating the index
101 To keep the index up-to-date, you will need to run:
105 ...at regular intervals in order to pick up new and updated attachments
106 from RT's database. Failure to do so will result in stale data.
110 Sphinx only returns a finite number of matches to any query; this number
111 is controlled by C<max_matches> in F</etc/sphinx.conf> and
112 C<%FullTextSearch>'s C<MaxMatches> in C<RT_SiteConfig.pm>, which must be
113 kept in sync. The default, set during C<rt-setup-fulltext-index>, is
114 10000. This limit may lead to false negatives in search results if the
115 maximum number of matches is reached but the results returned do not
116 match RT's other criteria.
118 Take, for example, the instance where Sphinx is configured to return a
119 maximum of three results, and tickets 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain the
120 string "target", but only ticket 5 is in status "Open". A search for
121 C<Content LIKE 'target' AND Status = 'Open'> may return no results,
122 despite ticket 5 matching those criteria, as Sphinx will only return
123 tickets 1, 2, and 3 as possible matches.
125 After index creation, altering C<MaxMatches> in C<RT_SiteConfig.pm> is
126 insufficient to adjust this limit; both C<max_matches> in
127 F</etc/sphinx.conf> and C<%FullTextSearch>'s C<MaxMatches> in
128 C<RT_SiteConfig.pm> must be updated.
132 =head2 Creating and configuring the index
134 Oracle supports full-text indexing natively using the Oracle Text
135 package. Once Oracle Text is installed and configured, run:
137 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index
139 If you have a non-standard database administrator username or password,
140 you may need to pass the C<--dba> or C<--dba-password> options:
142 sbin/rt-setup-fulltext-index --dba sysdba --dba-password secret
144 This will create an Oracle CONTEXT index on the Content column in the
145 Attachments table, as well as several preferences, functions and
146 triggers to support this index. The script will also output an
147 appropriate C<%FullTextSearch> configuration to add to your
150 =head2 Updating the index
152 To update the index, you will need to run the following at regular
155 sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer
157 This, in effect, simply runs:
160 ctx_ddl.sync_index('rt_fts_index', '2M');
163 The amount of memory used for the sync can be controlled with the
166 rt-fulltext-indexer --memory 10M
168 Instead of being run via C<cron>, this may instead be run via a
169 DBMS_JOB; read the B<Managing DML Operations for a CONTEXT Index>
170 chapter of Oracle's B<Text Application Developer's Guide> for details
171 how to keep the index optimized, perform garbage collection, and other