html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-790257263,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,790257263,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc5MDI1NzI2Mw==,649467,mhalle,2021-03-04T03:20:23Z,2021-03-04T03:20:23Z,NONE,"It's kind of an ugly hack, but you can try out what using the fts5 table as an actual datasette-accessible table looks like without changing any datasette code by creating yet another view on top of the fts5 table:

`create view proxyview as select *, rank, table_fts as fts from table_fts;`

That's now visible from datasette, just like any other view, but you can use `fts match escape_fts(search_string) order by rank`.

This is only good as a proof of concept because you're inefficiently going from view -> fts5 external content table -> view -> data table. However, it does show it works.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-789409126,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,789409126,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4OTQwOTEyNg==,649467,mhalle,2021-03-03T03:57:15Z,2021-03-03T03:58:40Z,NONE,"In FTS5, I think doing an FTS search is actually much easier than doing a join against the main table like datasette does now. In fact, FTS5 external content tables provide a transparent interface back to the original table or view.

Here's what I'm currently doing:
* build a view that joins whatever tables I want and rename the columns to non-joiny names (e.g, `chapter.name AS chapter_name` in the view where needed)
* Create an FTS5 table with `content=""viewname""`
* As described in the ""external content tables"" section (https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#external_content_tables), sql queries can be made directly to the FTS table, which behind the covers makes select calls to the content table when the content of the original columns are needed.
* In addition, you get ""rank"" and ""bm25()"" available to you when you select on the _fts table.

Unfortunately, datasette doesn't currently seem happy being coerced into doing a real query on an fts5 table.  This works:
```select col1, col2, col3 from table_fts where coll1=""value"" and table_fts match escape_fts(""search term"") order by rank```

But this doesn't work in the datasette SQL query interface:
```select col1, col2, col3 from table_fts where coll1=""value"" and table_fts match escape_fts(:search) order by rank```   (the ""search"" input text field doesn't show up)

For what datasette is doing right now, I think you could just use contentless fts5 tables (`content=""""`), since all you care about is the rowid since all you're doing a subselect to get the rowid anyway. In fts5, that's just a contentless table.

I guess if you want to follow this suggestion, you'd need a somewhat different code path for fts5.

","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-726419027,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,726419027,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyNjQxOTAyNw==,9599,simonw,2020-11-13T00:09:04Z,2020-11-13T00:09:04Z,OWNER,Part of the challenge here is that this is the first time the `TableView` will have had a complete rewrite of the SQL it is going to execute. That SQL is currently constructed here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/5eb8e9bf250b26e30b017d39a392c33973997656/datasette/views/table.py#L628-L636,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-723740546,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,723740546,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMzc0MDU0Ng==,9599,simonw,2020-11-09T04:01:50Z,2020-11-09T04:01:50Z,OWNER,I should depend on `sqlite-fts4` - I'm doing that in `sqlite-utils` now and it works great: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/198,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-721896822,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,721896822,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMTg5NjgyMg==,9599,simonw,2020-11-04T18:23:29Z,2020-11-04T18:23:29Z,OWNER,"Worth noting that joining to get the rank works for FTS5 but not for FTS4 - see comment here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/192#issuecomment-721420539

Easiest solution would be to only support sort-by-rank for FTS5 tables. Alternative would be to depend on https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-fts4","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-675725464,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,675725464,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY3NTcyNTQ2NA==,9599,simonw,2020-08-18T21:18:07Z,2020-08-18T21:18:35Z,OWNER,"I want this on the table page - but that means that the table page will need to run a slightly more complex query since it needs access to a `rank` column to sort by - which it gets from running a join.

BUT... that join needs to be constructed in a way that keeps existing filters, `?_where=` clauses etc intact.

Here's a prototype using SQLite CTEs: https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem?sql=with+original+as+%28select+rowid%2C+*+from+items%29%0D%0Aselect%0D%0A++original.*%2C%0D%0A++items_fts.rank+as+items_fts_rank%0D%0Afrom%0D%0A++original+join+items_fts+on+original.rowid+%3D+items_fts.rowid%0D%0Awhere%0D%0A++items_fts+match+escape_fts%28%3Asearch%29%0D%0Aorder+by+items_fts_rank+desc+limit+10&search=hotel

```sql
with original as (
  select
    rowid,
    *
  from
    items
)
select
  original.*,
  items_fts.rank as items_fts_rank
from
  original
  join items_fts on original.rowid = items_fts.rowid
where
  items_fts match escape_fts(:search)
order by
  items_fts_rank desc
limit
  10
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-504880796,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/268,504880796,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUwNDg4MDc5Ng==,9599,simonw,2019-06-24T06:47:23Z,2019-06-24T06:47:23Z,OWNER,I did a bunch of research relevant to this a while ago: https://simonwillison.net/2019/Jan/7/exploring-search-relevance-algorithms-sqlite/,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",323718842,Mechanism for ranking results from SQLite full-text search,