[EP-tech] Re: Search, for partial matches

[sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastien Francois)]

On 21/01/14 16:02, Ian Stuart wrote:
> On 21/01/14 15:44, Sebastien Francois wrote:
>> Perhaps your email field is of type "email" or "id" in which case an
>> exact match is performed?
>>
>> Try setting the "match" parameter to "IN" in your search (match is the
>> 3rd argument of ->add_field)
>>
>> Also how stuff is searched/indexed is defined in the metafield classes
>> (e.g. look at MetaField/Email::get_index_codes) - look what's in your
>> foo__rindex table to see what has been indexed.
> Nope - of type text.
> how does one create an indexed field?
>
> { name => "email", type => "text", required => 1, text_index => 1 }

Correct - "text_index" is not even needed since MetaField/Text.pm sets 
"text_index" to true by default.

Hm... have you looked at what's in the index tables for your dataset/field?