Sphinxql: several fields matching

Question

String with author and his book is given. There are two fields in index: author and title. I need to find all books where author and title matches. String may contain only author or only title, so I can't parse it. If I search

SELECT id FROM books 
WHERE MATCH('@(author, title) "jane smiley horse heaven");

, I don't get the most relevant book with author="jane smiley" and title="horse heaven".

I need something like

SELECT id FROM books
WHERE MATCH('@(title) "horse heaven" @(author) "jane smiley"');

but without splitting the string.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

MATCH('@(author, title) "jane smiley horse heaven"');

is asking for that exact phrase (quotes are phrase operator). ie those four words sequential in the text. As you say that wont really match.

Instead

MATCH('@(author,title) (jane smiley horse heaven)');

should mean it just requires those words. But in any field, and technically in any order (so could match against "jane heaven, horse drawn smiley" or whatever ;)