Hi Chris On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 04:13 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: > The search functionality is being provided by the Guix Data Service, > which in turn is searching through records in a PostgreSQL database. > > The relevant code is here [1], and it's the plainto_tsquery bit that > starts the transformation from a string to what PostgreSQL is using for > the search. > > 1: > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/data-service.git/tree/guix-data-service/model/package.scm#n144> >
I see. My knowledge of PostgreSQL is limited to emergency measures for when something happens with the home server :) > So yeah, I don't think the way it's implemented currently supports * as > a wildcard, although maybe that could be supported by changing the way > the query works. A low priority, but it would be nice on the list of things for future versions to improve the search. I think basic substring/partial matches would go a long way. Probably very easy for the PostgreSQL-ers. Or maybe make it match as best it can the result lists from "guix search" as a nice parallel. Anyway, thanks again for this, great to see it live! John
