Updating index schema

Updating index schema in RT mode

ALTER TABLE index ADD COLUMN column_name [{INTEGER|INT|BIGINT|FLOAT|BOOL|MULTI|MULTI64|JSON|STRING|TIMESTAMP|TEXT [INDEXED [ATTRIBUTE]]}] [engine='columnar']

ALTER TABLE index DROP COLUMN column_name

It supports adding one field at a time for RT indexes. Supported data types are:

  • int - integer attribute
  • timestamp - timestamp attribute
  • bigint - big integer attribute
  • float - float attribute
  • bool - boolean attribute
  • multi - multi-valued integer attribute
  • multi64 - multi-valued bigint attribute
  • json - json attribute
  • string / text attribute / string attribute - string attribute
  • text / text indexed stored / string indexed stored - full-text indexed field with original value stored in docstore
  • text indexed / string indexed - full-text indexed field, indexed only (the original value is not stored in docstore)
  • text indexed attribute / string indexed attribute - full text indexed field + string attribute (not storing the original value in docstore)
  • text stored / string stored - the value will be only stored in docstore, not full-text indexed, not a string attribute
  • adding engine='columnar' to any attribute (except for json) will make it stored in the columnar storage

Important notes:

  • Querying an index is impossible while a column is being added.
  • Newly created attribute's values are set to 0.
  • ALTER will not work for distributed indexes and indexes without any attributes.
  • DROP COLUMN will fail if an index has only one field.
  • When dropping a field which is both a full-text field and a string attribute the first ALTER DROP drops the attribute, the second one drops the full-text field.
  • Adding/dropping full-text field is only supported in RT mode.
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mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+
| Field      | Type      |
+------------+-----------+
| id         | bigint    |
| text       | field     |
| group_id   | uint      |
| date_added | timestamp |
+------------+-----------+

mysql> alter table rt add column test integer;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+
| Field      | Type      |
+------------+-----------+
| id         | bigint    |
| text       | field     |
| group_id   | uint      |
| date_added | timestamp |
| test       | uint      |
+------------+-----------+

mysql> alter table rt drop column group_id;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+
| Field      | Type      |
+------------+-----------+
| id         | bigint    |
| text       | field     |
| date_added | timestamp |
| test       | uint      |
+------------+-----------+

mysql> alter table rt add column title text indexed;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+------------+
| Field      | Type      | Properties |
+------------+-----------+------------+
| id         | bigint    |            |
| text       | text      | indexed    |
| title      | text      | indexed    |
| date_added | timestamp |            |
| test       | uint      |            |
+------------+-----------+------------+

mysql> alter table rt add column title text attribute;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+------------+
| Field      | Type      | Properties |
+------------+-----------+------------+
| id         | bigint    |            |
| text       | text      | indexed    |
| title      | text      | indexed    |
| date_added | timestamp |            |
| test       | uint      |            |
| title      | string    |            |
+------------+-----------+------------+

mysql> alter table rt drop column title;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+------------+
| Field      | Type      | Properties |
+------------+-----------+------------+
| id         | bigint    |            |
| text       | text      | indexed    |
| title      | text      | indexed    |
| date_added | timestamp |            |
| test       | uint      |            |
+------------+-----------+------------+
mysql> alter table rt drop column title;

mysql> desc rt;
+------------+-----------+------------+
| Field      | Type      | Properties |
+------------+-----------+------------+
| id         | bigint    |            |
| text       | text      | indexed    |
| date_added | timestamp |            |
| test       | uint      |            |
+------------+-----------+------------+

Updating index FT settings in plain mode

ALTER RTINDEX index RECONFIGURE

ALTER can also reconfigure an RT index in plain mode, so that new tokenization, morphology and other text processing settings from the configuration file take effect for new documents. Note, that the existing document will be left intact. Internally, it forcibly saves the current RAM chunk as a new disk chunk and adjusts the index header, so that new documents are tokenized using the updated full-text settings.

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mysql> show index rt settings;
+---------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------+-------+
| settings      |       |
+---------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> alter rtindex rt reconfigure;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> show index rt settings;
+---------------+----------------------+
| Variable_name | Value                |
+---------------+----------------------+
| settings      | morphology = stem_en |
+---------------+----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Functions

Mathematical functions

ABS()

Returns the absolute value of the argument.

ATAN2()

Returns the arctangent function of two arguments, expressed in radians.

BITDOT()

BITDOT(mask, w0, w1, ...) returns the sum of products of an each bit of a mask multiplied with its weight. bit0*w0 + bit1*w1 + ...

CEIL()

Returns the smallest integer value greater or equal to the argument.

COS()

Returns the cosine of the argument.

CRC32()

Returns the CRC32 value of a string argument.

EXP()

Returns the exponent of the argument (e=2.718... to the power of the argument).

FIBONACCI()

Returns the N-th Fibonacci number, where N is the integer argument. That is, arguments of 0 and up will generate the values 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on. Note that the computations are done using 32-bit integer math and thus numbers 48th and up will be returned modulo 2\^32.

FLOOR()

Returns the largest integer value lesser or equal to the argument.

GREATEST()

GREATEST(attr_json.some_array) function takes JSON array as the argument, and returns the greatest value in that array. Also works for MVA.

IDIV()

Returns the result of an integer division of the first argument by the second argument. Both arguments must be of an integer type.

LEAST()

LEAST(attr_json.some_array) function takes JSON array as the argument, and returns the least value in that array. Also works for MVA.

LN()

Returns the natural logarithm of the argument (with the base of e=2.718...).

LOG10()

Returns the common logarithm of the argument (with the base of 10).

LOG2()

Returns the binary logarithm of the argument (with the base of 2).

MAX()

Returns the bigger of two arguments.

MIN()

Returns the smaller of two arguments.

POW()

Returns the first argument raised to the power of the second argument.

RAND()

RAND(seed) function returns a random float between 0..1. Optionally can accept seed which can be:

  • constant integer
  • or integer attribute's name

If you use the seed take into account that it resets rand()'s starting point separately for each plain index / RT disk / RAM chunk / pseudo shard, so queries to a distributed index in any form can return multiple identical random values.

SIN()

Returns the sine of the argument.

SQRT()

Returns the square root of the argument.