#1214 - The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes

mysql

Solution

Before MySQL 5.6 Full-Text Search is supported only with MyISAM Engine.

Therefore either change the engine for your table to MyISAM

CREATE TABLE gamemech_chat (
  id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  from_userid varchar(50) NOT NULL default '0',
  to_userid varchar(50) NOT NULL default '0',
  text text NOT NULL,
  systemtext text NOT NULL,
  timestamp datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  chatroom bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (id),
  KEY from_userid (from_userid),
  FULLTEXT KEY from_userid_2 (from_userid),
  KEY chatroom (chatroom),
  KEY timestamp (timestamp)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

Here is SQLFiddle demo

or upgrade to 5.6 and use InnoDB Full-Text Search.

Problem

I'm getting an error saying that the table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indices. How can I achieve this? Here's my table: ``` CREATE TABLE gamemech_chat ( id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, from_userid varchar(50) NOT NULL default '0', to_userid varchar(50) NOT NULL default '0', text text NOT NULL, systemtext text NOT NULL, timestamp datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', chatroom bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY from_userid (from_userid), FULLTEXT KEY from_userid_2 (from_userid), KEY chatroom (chatroom), KEY timestamp (timestamp) ) ; ``` *

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