… our 5.1.69-14.7 release we merged not the exact Oracle 5.1.69 sources, but a later version…
Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters
…, – please note that, as stated in the article, this technique only works well for highly selective attributes. If attributes only have few distinct values (e.g status, gender, group_id with only 10 groups per 10M records), then you don’t want to use this. Please see “Highly selective columns only” section…

