Hi! I have a question about weighing. Or more I need an explanation 🙂 I have these two documents

{
  id: 1
  productName: "Stripe",
  variantName: "Throw, Black / White"
},
{
  id: 2
  productName: "Monster",
  variantName: "Throw, Ochre / Off-white Stripe"
}

I've set my params to prioritise

productName

over

variantName

, like this

query_by: 'sku,productName,variantName,designer,tags', query_by_weights: '5,4,3,1,2'

. When I search

stripe throw

, id 2 comes before id 1, even through id 1 is an exact hit of the more prioritised field. Why? id 2 has two exact matches in its

variantName

, but I still don't want that to "win" as the

productName

match is more important for me. Images in 🧵

By default, Typesense considers a field that matches all search terms exactly, to be the most relevant. You can disable this behavior by setting prioritize_exact_matches: false

But this matches ”stripe throw” exactly, on both of them, right? Just that on one document it matches on two separate fields

We should probably improve the name of that parameter, it should really be “prioritize_exact_match when all matches appear in the same field”. It essentially overrides weights when all keywords exist in the same field

Got it. Thanks for explaining!