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Discussing Complicated Queries with Typesense Q Param

TLDR Jainil asked about complex queries in Typesense 'q' parameter. Jason clarified it doesn't support boolean operators and referred to an open feature request.

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Sep 08, 2023 (3 weeks ago)

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Jainil

06:07 PM

Is it possible to do more complicated queries using the q param? I see negation, and I think quoted searches work too, but can we specify booleans (OR/AND) between query terms? And what about parenthetical searches? Looking to replicate a search experience similar to LI

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Jason

06:19 PM

Typesense doesn't support boolean operators in the q parameter - only in the filter_by parameter. But the filter_by parameter doesn't support typo tolerance and partial word searches

But there's an open feature request here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/1155

Could you upvote it / add your use-case to it?

Jainil

06:20 PM

Totally

06:20

Jainil

06:20 PM

Thanks!

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