Hi Michael,
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, at 9:59 PM, Michael Menge wrote:
> Is this a bug or intended behavior? Did i miss an config Option
>
> We are using squatter search engine with cyrus 3.4.9
I think this is intended behaviour. Have a look at this from imap/squat.h:
/* Don't change this unless you're SURE you know what you're doing.
Its only effect on the API is that searches for strings that are
shorter than SQUAT_WORD_SIZE are not allowed.
In SQUAT, a 'word' simply refers to a string of SQUAT_WORD_SIZE
arbitrary bytes.
*/
#define SQUAT_WORD_SIZE 4
There isn't a config option, but if you really want 3 char searches to work, I suppose you could change that define, recompile/reinstall, and probably rebuild search indexes. I have no idea what the ramifications of doing this would be, nor how the default value of 4 was chosen. Looks like this define has always been 4 since squat db support was first added. I guess indexes would probably get bigger, but who knows by how much.
Cheers,
ellie
