Hi,
I've built a database search engine which uses fulltext indexing. But I
have a problem regarding the minimum word length. The web host that my
client will be using does not want to decrease the ft_min_word_len
variable to 3 in stead of the default 4. (reason invoked: on a shared
environment, the index'll get larger and will impair server performance,
we should consider a dedicated server).
Doing regular searches using the LIKE clause does not care about this
limitation. Does using a combination of LIKE and MATCH AGAINST (not in
the same query, of course) seems like viable solution? Or is that just
nonsense?

henri