Full-Text Restrictions
Full-text searches are supported for InnoDB and MyISAM tables only. FULLTEXT index support for InnoDB tables requires MariaDB 5.6.4 or higher.
- Full-text searches are not supported for partitioned tables. See , "Restrictions and Limitations on Partitioning".
- Full-text searches can be used with most multi-byte character sets. The exception is that for Unicode, the
utf8character set can be used, but not theucs2character set. AlthoughFULLTEXTindexes onucs2columns cannot be used, you can performIN BOOLEAN MODEsearches on aucs2column that has no such index.The remarks for
utf8also apply toutf8mb4, and the remarks forucs2also apply toutf16,utf16le, andutf32. - Ideographic languages such as Chinese and Japanese do not have word delimiters. Therefore, the
FULLTEXTparser cannot determine where words begin and end in these and other such languages. The implications of this and some workarounds for the problem are described in , "Full-Text Search Functions". - Although the use of multiple character sets within a single table is supported, all columns in a
FULLTEXTindex must use the same character set and collation. - The
MATCH()column list must match exactly the column list in someFULLTEXTindex definition for the table, unless thisMATCH()isIN BOOLEAN MODEon aMyISAMtable. ForMyISAMtables only, boolean-mode searches can be done on nonindexed columns, although they are likely to be slow. - The argument to
AGAINST()must be a constant string. - Index hints are more limited for
FULLTEXTsearches than for non-FULLTEXTsearches. See , "Index Hint Syntax".