409823 - Can't effectively search for filenames using fulltext search (because "." is taken as a word separator)

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Amnon Aaronsohn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: 

When you search for a filename you get bugs that don't contain this filename.
For example, searching for nosuch.exe:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=nosuch.exe

returns more than 200 results.

The reason is apparently that the dot character is used as "or", so the query returns all the bugs that contain "nosuch" OR "exe". This makes the search useless for this kind of query since there are too many false positives.

(This doesn't happen when searching with the "quick search" feature:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=nosuch.exe

returns 0 results)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
2. Enter "nosuch.exe" in the "Find a bug" box, and press Enter

Actual Results:  
200 bugs appear, none of them containing the requested file name.

Expected Results:  
Only bugs containing the requested filename should be returned