Hi all! I’m encountering an issue with limits when using

multi_search

in my use case: • I have three collections: products, countries, and companies. • I perform a

multi_search

that queries each of these three collections. • I use the

per_page

parameter in the

common_search_params

. Here’s the problem: If I set

per_page

to 12, I expected to get a total of 12 results across all collections. However, I get 36 results instead (12 from each collection). Is there a workaround to enforce a total limit of 12 results across all collections combined? I’d be happy to clarify or discuss this further if needed. On a positive note, I’m excited because we’re planning to use Typesense in production on one of our sites starting January! Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Nicolás

The

per_page

parameter inside

multi_search

applies to each search, and not across searches. Currently, there's no way to limit the number of items across all searches

Thank you! will do 👍

Is there a workaround to enforce a total limit of 12 results across all collections combined?

You can try setting

per_page

to 4.

Yes, the issue there is the ordering. Let’s say that 12 items are most relevant than all the others from the other collections. If I set per page to 4, i will get 4 most relevant and 8 that are less relevant than the following 8 from the first collection

How do you define relevance in your search? According to some aggregate score field or text match score?

text match score, but I also have a measure I could use.

Maybe you can look into the Union feature that's part of 28.0.rc30 build. https://github.com/typesense/typesense/pull/2051#issue-2636962334

Thanks! I will take a look 🙂

Hey @Nicolás Netz Did Union fulfill your requirement?