On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently the Nepomuk query API will add a wildcard '*' to each full > text search term so terms like "Nepo" will also match "Nepomuk". > Recently some concern has been raised[1] about this practice and I tend > to agree with it. > Basically the competing idea is to not add a wildcard automatically but > let the user specify it like so: > > "nepo*" > > The advantage is that 1. we would support both wildcard matching and > non-wildcard matching and 2. simple full-text queries would be speed up > a little bit. The disadvantage is that it would be a behavioral change > in the API (the old behavior is not documented though). > > So I need some opinions here.
I think it is essential to support non-wildcard matching. I am not clear on which should be the default, but in the absence of suggestion of a good way to force non-wildcard matching I think that this is really the only option. -Todd _______________________________________________ Nepomuk mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk
