ignoring mysql fulltext stopwords in query

Question

I\'m building a search for a site, which utilizes a fulltext search. The search itself works great, that\'s not my problem. I string together user provided keywords (MATCH..

Answer 1

For the INNODB case, it is possible to disable stop_words when you create the index.

SET @@SESSION.innodb_ft_enable_stopword = 'OFF';

create table foo
....
fulltext (search_col)

This will cause the full text index to be created with the stopwords disabled. You can verify by using the following queries.

SET GLOBAL innodb_ft_aux_table = 'schema/foo';
select * from information_schema.innodb_ft_config;

Your results will look like this:

Notice that use_stopword is set to 0.

Search for use_stopwords on this mysql documentation page. and Checkout innodb_ft_enable_stopword here