Is it possible to filter a string field on multiple space-separated words and only return results that have those words in the same order? E.g.

title:`hello world` || title:`foo bar`

When I try that now, I get back documents with title like

hello welcome to my world

But I only want documents like • hello world • introduction hello world welcome • welcome to hello world If if it's not possible, how would I achieve the above? I know I could do

q="hello world"

and

query_by:title

, but then I can't do the

||

Hey there, you need to use the exact operator

:=

. That way, you won't get results back that don't match the exact string. You can use this in conjunction with prefix filtering to add the star at the end of the filter string

:=hello world*

to find matches that start with that. Although, there's no postfix filtering to get results for

welcome to my world

for example. I'd also advise taking a look at the newly added Union feature for federated / multi search to concat the tuple of results into a single one, so you can send as many search requests as the OR operands in the filter_by clause you had https://github.com/typesense/typesense-website/blob/v28.0/docs-site/content/28.0/api/federated-multi-search.md#union-search

Thank you Fanis. I considered

:=

, but that wouldn't give me results where

hello world

is just a part of the title. The prefix filtering would give me half what I need, but I'd still be missing the postfix filtering as you suggested. Essentially I need something like

title:=*hello world

.* I came across multi-search and think it can satisfy my use case if I do something like

searches: [
  {q: '"hello world"'}, {q: '"foo bar"'}
]

But I would have to manage pagination and offsets on the client side due to this, so I was hoping I could achieve what I wanted using the native

filter_by

functionality

Yeah, that isn't currently possible in Typesense

The multi-search option would work in this scenario:

title:`hello world` || title:`foo bar`

any ideas on how I'd be able to implement something like this though?

(title:`hello world` || title:`foo bar`) && (description:`hello world` || description:`foo bar`)

Multi-search seems to be acting as an OR, but in this case we also want to AND two results. Would the only solution here to be manually union (client side) the results of the left and right?