: > i don't know that this is really dding a feature ... it's changing syntax. : > "foo:*bar" has meaning by default in the query parser ... it's meaning may : > typically result in a query that doesn't match anything, : : I think it's adding syntax, not changing it. : Right now, you get an exception for foo:*bar : So if we allowed it by default, I would call that 100% backward compatible.
Ah ... this is where my poor knowledge of wildcards comes in ... i thought it treated * as a litteral, yeah i see your point now ... i retract that objection, but reserve the right to stand behind the "let's not make it easy to crash the box by default" objection. :) -Hoss
