The Information Schema INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE table contains information about InnoDB fulltext indexes. To avoid re-organizing the fulltext index each time a change is made, which would be very expensive, new changes are stored separately and only integrated when an OPTIMIZE TABLE is run. See the INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE table.

The SUPER privilege is required to view the table, and it also requires the innodb_ft_aux_table system variable to be set.

It has the following columns:

Note that for OPTIMIZE TABLE to process InnoDB fulltext index data, the innodb_optimize_fulltext_only system variable needs to be set to 1. When this is done, and an OPTIMIZE TABLE statement run, the INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE table will be emptied, and the INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE table will be updated.

Examples

SELECT * FROM INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

SET GLOBAL innodb_optimize_fulltext_only =1;

OPTIMIZE TABLE test.ft_innodb;
+----------------+----------+----------+----------+
| Table          | Op       | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+----------------+----------+----------+----------+
| test.ft_innodb | optimize | status   | OK       |
+----------------+----------+----------+----------+

SELECT * FROM INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE;
+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+--------+----------+
| WORD       | FIRST_DOC_ID | LAST_DOC_ID | DOC_COUNT | DOC_ID | POSITION |
+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+--------+----------+
| and        |            4 |           5 |         2 |      4 |        0 |
| and        |            4 |           5 |         2 |      5 |        0 |
| arrived    |            4 |           4 |         1 |      4 |       20 |
| ate        |            1 |           5 |         2 |      1 |        4 |
| ate        |            1 |           5 |         2 |      5 |        8 |
| everybody  |            1 |           1 |         1 |      1 |        8 |
| goldilocks |            4 |           4 |         1 |      4 |        9 |
| hungry     |            3 |           3 |         1 |      3 |        8 |
| pear       |            5 |           5 |         1 |      5 |       14 |
| she        |            5 |           5 |         1 |      5 |        4 |
| then       |            4 |           4 |         1 |      4 |        4 |
| wicked     |            2 |           2 |         1 |      2 |        4 |
| witch      |            2 |           2 |         1 |      2 |       11 |
+------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+--------+----------+