Search filenames in MySQL database table restricted by filetype?

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Published on 2009-12-05T20:05:47Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 6:02 UTC
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Hello

I have a MySQL database that I replicate from another server. The database contains a table with this columns

ID, FileName and FileSize

In the table there are more than 4'000'000 records. I want to make fast a search in FileName (varchar) column

I found that I can use for this Sphinx search engine. The problem is that I want to restrict searches by filetype. Do I have to and how (trigers?) to extract file extensions for all rows? May be I have to create another table (because this one is replicated) and join them in 1:1 relation?

Can you give me some advices please :)

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