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underscore(_) is considered a white space in search?

When we are searching with words that include an underscore (on a postgresql backend), it looks like the underscore is considered like a space and searches 2 words instead.

For example, putting long_word in the search box displays questions that have long AND word but does not specifically search for long_word.

Is it possible to change this behavior?

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Benoit
asked 2011-05-26 20:23:50 -0500
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Benoit, it is all done on the level of the database. Postgres itself tokenizes the query string, possibly it splits the words by the underscores as well. I gave only a very brief look into the docs and could not find anything quickly, but I will continue tomorrow.

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Evgeny
answered 2011-05-27 03:58:37 -0500
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