How to select more than 20 rows in SPHINX engine? I use SphinxSE instead of FULLTEXT. Sphinx settings are for end-users of a search engine. According to the official documentation,

LIMIT clause. Both LIMIT N and LIMIT M,N forms are supported. Unlike
in regular SQL (but like in Sphinx API), an implicit LIMIT 0,20 is
present by default.

Therefore, any query returns only 20 rows
MariaDB [sphinx]&gt; SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE query='test;mode=any';
+------+--------+---------------+
| id   | weight | query         |
+------+--------+---------------+
|  556 |      1 | test;mode=any |
|  864 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 1329 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 1781 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 1832 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 2157 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 2388 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 2889 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3118 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3155 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3255 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3485 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3495 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 3623 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4034 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4525 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4563 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4659 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4736 |      1 | test;mode=any |
| 4807 |      1 | test;mode=any |
+------+--------+---------------+
20 rows in set (0.027 sec)

I experimented with various settings in the sphinx.conf, but am unable to change the setting to return more results in a SQL query.
In docs you can include limit=40. So:
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE query='test;mode=any;limit=40';

Not a usual SQL way, but SphinxSE isn't quite normal.