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Discussion on Typesense's Multi-matches per Document Feature

TLDR bnfd inquires about multi-matches per document feature in Typesense. Kishore Nallan explains that it hasn't been prioritized due to available workarounds. bnfd hopes for more requests for this feature.

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bnfd

09:05 AM

Is multiple matches per document in the roadmap? https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/434

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Kishore Nallan

09:15 AM

It has not been prioritized because most people are able to split their documents into sections or paragraphs and use group_by to get multiple hits per document, with corresponding snippet. For e.g. this is how the documentation search on Typesense website works.

bnfd

09:27 AM

Ah, I would have guessed more people would need this as getting comprehensive results (grep like) is important for some cases.

09:32

bnfd

09:32 AM

Splitting the documents is a workaround and has some shortcomings (mentioned in the github issue) so I'm hoping more people will request this

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