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Search Query Issues in Typesense

TLDR Gines wanted search results in Typesense for partial matches, not just exact ones. Kishore Nallan suggested solutions, but none fulfilled Gines's requirements.

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Gines

08:57 AM

Hi, I am having a problem with my queries.

What I need to do with typesense is to search for all the results that contain some of the words... For example:

I am searching for "red electric car" and typesense only returns results that contains these three words, but I would like it to return results for "red car" and "electric car" as well, is that possible?

Thank you!

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Kishore Nallan

09:00 AM

Maybe try with exhaustive_search: true ? But it will be a much more expensive query to run.

Gines

09:06 AM

I try it, but same results...

I have these parameters:

            'query_by' => "Name,Description",
            'q' => "red electric car",
            'per_page' => 20,
            'page' => 1,
            'exhaustive_search' => true,
            'prioritize_exact_match' => true,
            'max_candidates' => 1000

Kishore Nallan

09:08 AM

We don't have a mode to do a mandatory OR of the search keywords. So I am trying to see if there is a work around here.... Can you try sending drop_tokens_threshold: 10000 ? This will force Typesense to keep dropping tokens from the query until 10000 results are found and will indirectly result in individual tokens being queried.

Gines

09:18 AM

Now returns many results, but does not prioritize the exact match as expected, and only matches the first word, in this case is returning many "red" hits

Kishore Nallan

09:19 AM

Yeah we don't have a way to do exactly what you want here.

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