Reported upstream: https://secure.phabricator.com/T6780
A search for "parent project" (with double quotes) should result in a list pages that have the exact phrase. Currently "parent" AND "project" seems to be provided instead. Examples:
General search
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/vqVbuOTA8zj4/#R
Maniphest advanced search
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/hOCP1FU.zbhf/#R
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • mmodell | T146789 Phab Advanced Search no longer showing typical results | |||
| Resolved | jcrespo | T146673 Contention on search phabricator database creating full phabricator outages | |||
| Resolved | • mmodell | T146843 Re-evaluate how we implement phabricator's search engine | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T75854 Fix provided search results in Wikimedia Phabricator | |||
| Resolved | • demon | T75743 Can't search an exact phrase in Phabricator | |||
| Resolved | • chasemp | T78243 Phabricator upgrade on 2015-01-14 | |||
| Resolved | • chasemp | T77976 phabricator - don't run as root |
@Chad is taking care of search related tasks, and he will prioritize them accordingly. Setting this one as Normal, since he has started with T679: Phabricator search does not search substrings.
Also, I wonder what is the right approach for Elasticsearch related tasks upstream. In one hand, the Phabricator maintainers (who are not using this backend) say that they want to focus on the default, MySQL based search. On the other hand, upstream is probably still the right place to do this work, if only to make it visible to other Elasticsearch users there.
In other words, should we file this task upstream?
Yes, I'd say file it. They have their own Elasticsearch project for tracking them too and there's at least one other third party user other than ourselves who seems very interested in seeing Elastic support improve for Phab.
Unless there is some indexing to be done or some special syntax to be used other than quotes, searching for "whole blocks" gives many results where such string doesn't exist.
General search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/Zpn.7BOas6wY/#R
Maniphest search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/6beSYzcyoWVS/#R
I guess this task needs to be reopened.