skipping non-plain index rt (sphinx 2.1.6) - sphinx

Question

There is the question. Sphinx, version 2.1.6. I used to rt(real time) index, but when indexing display message in koncole:
using config file 'sphinx.conf'...
skipping non-plain index 'rt'...
But at a connection to sphinxbase and write query mysql> desc rt - displays:
+------------+--------+
| Field | Type |
+------------+--------+
| id | bigint |
| id | field |
| first_name | field |
| last_name | field |
+------------+--------+
This is default data?? They do not meet my request. How to work with index rt?
Sphinx.conf.
source database
{
type = mysql
sql_host = 127.0.0.1
sql_user = test
sql_pass = test
sql_db = community
sql_port = 3306
mysql_connect_flags = 32 # enable compression
sql_query_pre = SET NAMES utf8
sql_query_pre = SET SESSION query_cache_type=OFF
}
source rt : database
{
sql_query_range = SELECT MIN(id),MAX(id) FROM mbt_accounts
sql_query = SELECT id AS 'accountId', first_name AS 'fname', last_name AS 'lname' FROM mbt_accounts WHERE id >= 0 AND id<= 1000
sql_range_step = 1000
sql_ranged_throttle = 1000 # milliseconds
}
index rt
{
source = rt
type = rt
path = /etc/sphinxsearch/rtindex
rt_mem_limit = 700M
rt_field = accountId
rt_field = fname
rt_field = lname
rt_attr_string = fname
rt_attr_string = lname
charset_type = utf-8
charset_table = 0..9, A..Z->a..z, _, -, a..z, U+410..U+42F->U+430..U+44F, U+430..U+44F, U+401->U+451, U+451
}
searchd
{
listen = localhost:9312 # port for API
listen = localhost:9306:mysql41 #port for a SphinxQL
log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
binlog_path = /var/log/sphinxsearch/
query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
query_log_format = sphinxql
pid_file = /var/run/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid
workers = threads
max_matches = 1000
read_timeout = 5
client_timeout = 300
max_children = 30
max_packet_size = 8M
binlog_flush = 2
binlog_max_log_size = 90M
thread_stack = 8M
expansion_limit = 500
rt_flush_period = 1800
collation_server = utf8_general_ci
compat_sphinxql_magics = 0
prefork_rotation_throttle = 100
}
Thanks.

Answer 1

indexer only works with indexes that have a 'source' - ie plain disk indexesd. ie indexer does the stuff in the source to get the data to create the index.
RT (Real Time) indexes work very differently. indexer is not involved with RT indexes at all. They are handled totally by searchd.
To add data to a RT index, you need to run a bunch of SphinxQL commands (INSERT, UPDATE etc) that actually add the data to the index.
(DESCRIBE works, because searchd knows the 'structure' of the index (you told it via the rt_field etc) - even if never inserted any data)
Ah, I think you are asking why the structure is different. That's probably because the index was probably created before, you modified sphinx.conf. If you change the definiton of a RT index, you need to 'destroy' the index, to allow it be recreated again.
The simplest way is to shutdown searchd, delete the index files, delete the binlog (it no longer relevent) and then restart searchd.
searchd --stopwait
rm /etc/sphinxsearch/rtindex*
rm /path/to/binlog* #(you dont define a path, so it must be the default, which varies)
searchd #(starts searchd again)