[SOLVED] how to do `search` in a string and `greaterThanEqual` in a datetime, in one query

as the title suggests, I'm in a situation, where I need to do a search query on a string-type array, but that query also includes a DateTime attribute. if I go into detail, I need to do a search on a String[], and a greaterThanEqual on a DateTime attribute, in a single query. And as we all know, the search query requires a FullText type index. I tried creating a FullText index with DateTime attribute included, but the creation fails (as expected).
I made a post about this previously, and there, someone mentioned that I cannot create a FullText index with types other than string. I lost that post, so here I'm posting it again. Is there any workaround to accomplish this?

Hi

hello

Let me look into this and brb

So,

You can create 2 indexes for this to work separately. If your app does not do very much heavy lifting, this shouldnt impact the performance by a lot. MariaDB should be smart enough and always look for the best possible option. Separate indexes are still faster than no indexes, so it should be used under the hood.

If you want to get rid of "index not found" error, it's fine to leave it as it. Create index, it will be failed, ignore it.

For someone in future checking this post and didn't get what actually to do: so I created one FullText index with the attr that I wanna do search query. one key index with the DateTime attribute. it does the job. but still returns "Index not found". to tackle that, I created a dummy FullText index with both attr included (tho the creation failed, but it resolved the "Index not found" error)

Thanks @joeyouss

[SOLVED] how to do search in a string and greaterThanEqual in a datetime, in one query

Thank you @manazo ❤️ this msg is helpful