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When I do a LIKP search on 'paul' i get the following message: <!-- 115 /search:671: Query `paul' would require post-processing: Index expression(s) do not match term `p' -->

When I do the same search on 'John', the results are good.

What could the difference be between these two searches?

select COUNT(*) cnt FROM Crawdaddy WHERE Content LIKEP ('paul');

select COUNT(*) cnt FROM Crawdaddy WHERE Content LIKEP ('john');

What were your index expressions when creating the index on Content?

<SQL "set keepnoise=1;"></SQL>
<SQL "set minwordlen=2;"></SQL>

The index was created using this statement after keepnoise and minwordlen were set.

<SQL "create metamorph inverted index Crawdaddy_Content on Crawdaddy(Content)"></SQL>

What about addexp?

Or have you setup a custom locale such that "a" would be considered whitespace?

I haven't explicity set addexp and I don't have a custom locale setup (at least not to my knowledge).

You have minwordlen too low. It is stripping off the a and ul from Paul as suffixes, leaving only P. You could <SQL "set defsuffrm = 0"></SQL> to prevent the "a" being stripped, but generally you would want a more limited set of suffixes if you set minwordlen that low.

Well, setting minwordlen=4 solved the issue with 'Paul' and "john' and 'bob' still work. I guess this a trial-and-error situation to find the best setting. Any advice? Thanks.

minwordlen shouldn't be less than 4 or maybe 3. 4 or 5 is typical.