How to tweak metamorph search

chand012 · Post by **chand012** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 11:09 am

I have some unwanted search results that I'd like to eliminate from a metamorph search. When I search the term "eric", the system is matching "American". How do I control this behavior?

Thanks,
David

Post by **Kai** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 11:44 am

Make sure your Metamorph index is up to date; some versions of Texis will match words as a substring of another word for unindexed rows. Also check the HTML source of the results page for errors in comments. What is the full Metamorph query you're using?

chand012 · Post by **chand012** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 12:14 pm

Updating the metamorph (inverted) index fixed the problem. Thanks!

Post by **Kai** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 2:18 pm

FYI, make sure you update all Metamorph indexes on a regular basis (hourly/daily, or after batch table updates); the more the table is modified since the last update, the slower searches become. Regular (B-tree) indexes do not require updating.

chand012 · Post by **chand012** » Thu Oct 25, 2001 11:36 am

Right, I did insert lines in shell script run by daily cron job to update the indexes in question. Thanks for the note.