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null columns in full text search
Posted by: Andrew Groh
Date: August 25, 2005 03:15PM

I am trying to do a full text search where one of the columns may be null. For example

select * from t_document d, t_author a left join d.author_id = a.author_id
where MATCH(d.title,a.name) against ("something" in boolean mode)

The problem is that the document may not have an author and therefore a.name may be null. So even if "something" is in the document title, the row is not returned if the a.name is NULL. Is this the correct behavior (I am familiar with how NULL works in other contexts, and why it is not an empty string)? Is there a way I can work around this?

Andrew

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