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+1  Q: 

MySQL error: "Column 'columnname' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index"

Hello,

Recently I changed a bunch of columns to utf8_general_ci (the default UTF-8 collation) but when attempting to change a particular column, I received the MySQL error:

Column 'node_content' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index

In looking through docs, it appears that MySQL has a problem with FULLTEXT indexes on some multi-byte charsets such as UCS-2, but that it should work on UTF-8.

I'm on the latest stable MySQL 5.0.x release (5.0.77 I believe).

+3  A: 

Oops, so I have found the answer to my problem:

All columns of a FULLTEXT index must have not only the same character set but also the same collation.

My FULLTEXT index had utf8_unicode_ci (instead of utf8_general_ci) on one of its other columns.

thomasrutter  2009-03-17 05:16:29

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