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Improvements to synonyms #33

Open ojwb opened 3 months ago

ojwb commented 3 months ago

fastcardriver on #xapian ran into this not working:

db.add_synonym( "Treppe", "Treppenkörper" );

The issue is the term needs to be lowercase (otherwise T is treated as a prefix), but we don't actually seem to explain that.

Also they noted that it seems wrong that add_synonym() is called from the search code. Perhaps it would be better to have separate scripts for indexing, adding synonyms, and searching to make it clear that these are essentially separate steps.

jaylett commented 3 months ago

Agree on both counts. It's weird that search_synonym has to use a writable database, where none of the other searches do; splitting out synonyms would allow us to resolve that.