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I do like the idea of there being a option for turning that on by default so that you could use those terms in the default "Search" bar presented when you browse to a table where FTS has been enabled. Maybe even a small inline pop up with a short bit explaining the FTS feature and the keywords (e.g. case matters). What are the side-effects of turning that on in the query string, or even by default as you suggested? I see that you stated in the docs... "to ensure they do not cause any confusion for users who are not aware of them", but I'm not sure what those could be.

Isn't it the case that those keywords are only picked up by sqlite in where you're using the MATCH clause?

Seems like a really powerful feature (even though there are a lot of hurdles around setting it up in the sqlite db ... sqlite-utils makes that so simple by the way!)

Also came up here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/268#issuecomment-876616414

If I implement this I'll also set it up so ?_searchmode=default can be used to over-ride that and go back to the default behaviour.

Relevant code: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/d23a2671386187f61872b9f6b58e0f80ac61f8fe/datasette/views/table.py#L491-L498

Relevant documentation: https://docs.datasette.io/en/0.57.1/full_text_search.html#advanced-sqlite-search-queries

This makes sense to me since other useful querystring arguments like this can be set as defaults in the metadata.json configuration.

I had setup a full text search on my instance of Datasette for title data for our public library, and was noticing that some of the features of the SQLite FTS weren't working as expected ... and maybe the issue is in the escape_fts() function

That's a deliberate feature (albeit controversial, see #759) - part of the main problem here is that it's easy to construct a SQLite full-text search string which results in a database error. This is a bad user-experience!

You can opt-in to raw SQL queries by appending ?_searchmode=raw to the page, see https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/full_text_search.html#advanced-sqlite-search-queries

But maybe there should be an option for turning that on by default without needing the query string?

I had setup a full text search on my instance of Datasette for title data for our public library, and was noticing that some of the features of the SQLite FTS weren't working as expected ... and maybe the issue is in the escape_fts() function

vs removing the function...

Also, on the issue of sorting by rank by default .. perhaps something like this could work for the baked-in default SQL query for Datasette?

link to the above search in my instance of Datasette

This sounds like a valuable feature for people running Datasette behind a proxy.

Yes, in some cases it is easer to use e.g. Apache's ProxyPass Directive with Unix Domain Socket like unix:/home/www.socket|http://localhost/whatever/.