Manticore Search Manual: Creating a table > Local tables

table <index_name>[:<parent table name>] {
...
}

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Real-time

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table <table name> {
  type = plain
  path = /path/to/table
  source = <source_name>
  source = <another source_name>
  [stored_fields = <comma separated list of full-text fields that should be stored, all are stored by default, can be empty>]
}

type = plain

type = rt

Table type: "plain" or "rt" (real-time)

Value: plain (default), rt

path = path/to/table

Absolute or relative path without extension where to store the table or where to look for it

Value: path to the table, mandatory

stored_fields = title, content

By default when a table is defined in a configuration file, full-text fields' original content is both indexed and stored. This setting lets you specify the fields that should have their original values stored.

Value: comma separated list of full-text fields that should be stored. Empty value (i.e. stored_fields =) disables storing original values for all the fields.

Note, in case of a real-time table the fields listed in stored_fields should be also declared as rt_field.

Note also, that you don't need to list attributes in stored_fields, since their original values are stored anyway. stored_fields can be only used for full-text fields.

See also docstore_block_size, docstore_compression for document storage compression options.

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CONFIG

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CREATE TABLE products(title text, content text stored indexed, name text indexed, price float)

POST /cli -d "
CREATE TABLE products(title text, content text stored indexed, name text indexed, price float)"

$params = [
    'body' => [
        'columns' => [
            'title'=>['type'=>'text'],
            'content'=>['type'=>'text', 'options' => ['indexed', 'stored']],
            'name'=>['type'=>'text', 'options' => ['indexed']],
            'price'=>['type'=>'float']
        ]
    ],
    'index' => 'products'
];
$index = new \Manticoresearch\Index($client);
$index->create($params);

utilsApi.sql('CREATE TABLE products(title text, content text stored indexed, name text indexed, price float)')

res = await utilsApi.sql('CREATE TABLE products(title text, content text stored indexed, name text indexed, price float)');

utilsApi.sql("CREATE TABLE products(title text, content text stored indexed, name text indexed, price float)");

table products {
  stored_fields = title, content # we want to store only "title" and "content", "name" shouldn't be stored

  type = rt
  path = tbl
  rt_field = title
  rt_field = content
  rt_field = name
  rt_attr_uint = price
}

stored_only_fields = title,content

List of fields that will be stored in the table, but will not be indexed. Similar to stored_fields except when a field is specified in stored_only_fields it is only stored, not indexed and can't be searched with full-text queries. It can only be returned with search results.

Value: comma separated list of fields that should be stored only, not indexed. Default is empty. Note, in case of a real-time table the fields listed in stored_only_fields should be also declared as rt_field.

Note also, that you don't need to list attributes in stored_only_fields, since their original values are stored anyway. If to compare stored_only_fields to string attributes the former (stored field):

is stored on disk and doesn't require memory
is stored compressed
can be only fetched, you can't sort/filter/group by the value

The latter (string attribute) is:

stored on disk and in memory
stored uncompressed
can be used for sorting, grouping, filtering and anything else you want to do with attributes.

Max number of RT table disk chunks. Read more here.

rt_field = subject

Full-text fields to be indexed. The names must be unique. The order is preserved; and so field values in INSERT statements without an explicit list of inserted columns will have to be in the same order as configured.

Full-text field declaration. Multi-value, optional.

rt_attr_uint = gid

Unsigned integer attribute declaration

Value: field_name or field_name:N, can be multiple records. N is the max number of bits to keep.

rt_attr_bigint = gid

BIGINT attribute declaration

Value: field name, multiple records allowed

rt_attr_multi = tags

Multi-valued attribute (MVA) declaration. Declares the UNSIGNED INTEGER (unsigned 32-bit) MVA attribute. Multi-value (ie. there may be more than one such attribute declared), optional.