Magento Indexing: Admin Interface Column
What is significance of each column in Admin related to indexing interface?Index Status
A Magento index has following three statuses.
- pending
- working
- require_reindex
You can check constants for these process statuses here
(Class Name:Mage_Index_Model_Process)
const STATUS_RUNNING = ‘working’;
const STATUS_PENDING = ‘pending’;
const STATUS_REQUIRE_REINDEX = ‘require_reindex’;
Index Process
This is basically a wrapper for the indexer itself and can be found in the table index_process. It has the following information:
- Indexer code
- Current indexer status
- Start and end times
- Mode
What are indexing present in Magento?
Following are the indexing types
- Product Attribute’s
- Product Price
- Catalog URL Rewrites
- Product Flat Data
- Category Flat Data
- Category Products
- Catalog Search Index
- Stock Status
- Tag Aggregation Data