BUG#38842 - Fix for 25951 seems incorrect
With fix for bug 25951 index hints are ignored for fulltext searches, as handling of fulltext indexes is different from handling regular indexes. Meaning it is not possible to implement true index hints support for fulltext indexes within the scope of current fulltext architecture. The problem is that prior to fix for bug 25951, some useful index hints still could be given for boolean mode searches. This patch implements special index hints support for fulltext indexes with the following characteristics: - all index hints are still ignored for NLQ mode searches - it cannot work without an index; - for 5.1 and up index hints FOR ORDER BY and FOR GROUP BY are still ignored for fulltext indexes; - boolean mode searches honor USE/FORCE/IGNORE INDEX hints; - as opposed to index hints for regular indexes, index hints for fulltext BOOLEAN mode searches affect the usage of the index for the whole query.
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