Doing time segments, geodistance searches, and overrides in SphinxQL
SphinxQL now lets you do everything querying-related that SphinxAPI did, in a simpler, faster, and more convenient way. For most of the features, the mapping of API calls to SphinxQL syntax is straightforwards (either via SQL syntax or using our OPTION clause). However, a few things, namely time segments, geosearches, overrides, index and weight fields, etc might now be less obvious. So let’s discuss them.
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