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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1258#issuecomment-1437671409 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1258 1437671409 IC_kwDOBm6k_c5VsR_x 2670795 2023-02-20T23:39:58Z 2023-02-20T23:39:58Z CONTRIBUTOR

This is pretty annoying for FTS because sqlite throws an error instead of just doing something like returning all or no results. This makes users who are unfamiliar with SQL and Datasette think the canned query page is broken and is a frequent source of confusion.

To anyone dealing with this: My solution is to modify the canned query so that it returns no results which cues people to fill in the blank parameters.

So instead of emails_fts match escape_fts(:search))

My canned queries now look like this:

emails_fts match escape_fts(iif(:search=="", "*", :search))

There are no asterisks in my data so the result is always blank.

Ultimately it would be nice to be able to handle this in the metadata. Either making some named parameters required or setting some default values.

 
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