Issues and Workarounds for Typesense's Typo Tolerance Feature
TLDR John found unexpected results with Typesense's typo tolerance feature. Jason explained it is the feature's design and suggested a workaround that could potentially yield more results than desired.
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Aug 24, 2023 (1 month ago)
John
05:11 PMIf you search and reach the
typo_tokens_threshold
and subsequently apply a filter, you may get many more results than you had before you applied the filter. See this pastebin for an example.What are your thoughts around this? Is there some good workaround?
Jason
06:08 PMtypo_tokens_threshold
to a large number to pull up the same typo corrected results for the non-filtered use-case as wellAug 29, 2023 (1 month ago)
John
09:34 AM1
Jason
02:56 PMtypo_tokens_threshold
to a large number?John
02:57 PMTypesense
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