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Querying Documents with "OR"

TLDR Aapo queried about making "OR" searches across documents for specific terms. Kishore Nallan clarified that OR search is limited to the same field and doesn't support free text search in the "q" parameter.

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Feb 02, 2022 (19 months ago)

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Aapo

11:54 AM

Hi all, just posted an issue on Github but this might be a better place for asking… is it possible to do queries like “cat OR dog” that would search for documents that contain “cat” or “dog”?

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Kishore Nallan

11:57 AM

👋 OR queries within the same field can be done like this: name: [cat, dog] but we don't support OR queries across fields.

Aapo

11:57 AM

Can I use it in the “q” parameter?

Kishore Nallan

11:58 AM

No, q parameter is a free text search which does not support conditions. Only the filter_by supports that syntax.

Aapo

11:58 AM

Ok, thanks!

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