It doesn't actually work, and even if we could make it work reliably
we are better off if the records always know to go to the right shard.
It does make the interface a bit more complicated as we need to select
the right shard class with `for(account_id)`.
Instead we'll compute the table name dynamically based on
Current.account where needed. Also we'll prevent searchable records
from being saved if Current.account is not set, otherwise the after
commit callbacks will fail.
Lean on ActiveRecord models for searching and strip out the raw SQL.
Replaces the search_index_* tables with sharded search_records_* tables
as that allows us to use a Search::Record model name.
A Class is dynamically created for each record table shard so that we
and we can access it via the Search::Record.for_account(account_id)
method.
Create search_index_0 to search_index_15 tables and shard each index by
account id. MySQL has no ability to pre-filter fulltext indexes by
another field so this is the best bet for improving performance.
Each fulltest index internally creates 11 sub tables (see
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/innodb-fulltext-index.html) so
actually we have 192 tables in total here.
The search_index table name is generated dynamically based on the
account_id.
Add a single search_index table for full-text search of cards and
comments.
For the search there is a full-text index on the title and content
columns. The board_ids is also included in the table and accessible
board ids are pre-loaded and included in the search query. This allows
us to filter out inaccessible records before joining with other tables.
Right now the search is just using boolean search. This would give us
a bunch of syntax options
(see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/fulltext-boolean.html)
except the search query filters those out.
I've removed the searchable_by method for now - everything is built
on the assumption that there's a single search index table and all data
must fit into it.
Queries are written in SQL, we don't have a SearchIndex ActiveRecord
model. That's because we'll likely want to shard the table and it will
be simpler to just keep with the raw SQL for that.
There's no stemming, highlighting or snippet extraction yet - we are
dumping the full description in the search results.
Data can be reindexed with the search:reindex rake task.
Donal McBreen