Modifying Exhaustive Search Behavior in Document Retrieval
TLDR Laura inquired about tweaking exhaustive search parameters for document retrieval. Jason clarified that using exhaustive_search: true
considers all variations and prefixes but doesn't necessarily return a fixed number of documents. Laura acknowledged the misunderstanding.
Jul 10, 2023 (2 months ago)
Laura
05:35 PMJason
06:01 PMThat’s what
exhaustive_search: true
does… and that could lead to a large number of resultsJason
06:02 PMI assume you mean the 10K max_candidates value. It’s not the number of results, but the number of prefixes to consider internally. Only the matching prefixes will be returned in the results
Jul 11, 2023 (2 months ago)
Laura
01:59 PMTypesense
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