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| author | Frederick Muriuki Muriithi | 2023-03-30 09:16:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Frederick Muriuki Muriithi | 2023-03-30 09:16:23 +0300 |
| commit | f82c115b0e1a4cc30c2ee7c0a969402b7fd3eebf (patch) | |
| tree | 92c7bf46fff3b3ec21d61208cbb1c7137ae29a4d | |
| parent | 6e8c6af7d247dba10f3796bad107685d1b30dc50 (diff) | |
| download | gn-gemtext-f82c115b0e1a4cc30c2ee7c0a969402b7fd3eebf.tar.gz | |
Gotchas: Pure `NOT` queries not supported
Add a section in the documentations about things that are not entirely
obvious to the user when doing search.
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diff --git a/topics/xapian-search-queries.gmi b/topics/xapian-search-queries.gmi index 0364344..74966f7 100644 --- a/topics/xapian-search-queries.gmi +++ b/topics/xapian-search-queries.gmi @@ -90,3 +90,25 @@ Alternatively, this same query may be expressed using kilo or mega suffixes. Hs:chr4:9130k..9980k species:mouse Hs:chr4:9.13M..9.98M species:mouse ``` + +## Gotchas + +### Pure `NOT` queries are not supported + +Due to +=> https://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html#ae96a58a8de9d219ca3214a5a66e0407eacafc7c8cf7c90adac0fc07d02125aed0 performance reasons, +pure `NOT` queries are not supported. + +A search such as: + +``` +NOT author:hager +``` + +will fail. + +You will need to add something to the query to prevent the error, e.g. + +``` +species:mouse NOT author:hager +``` |