René Vestergaard wrote: Are you sure this is a bug and not a problem with your install? Simply searching for "mod" in my Posgres 8.3.x + MW 1.13.2 install returns matches for modes, model, modify, and so on. Attempting to insert wildcard characters in the middle results in no return (i.e. bac*up does not match backup) but I don't know if this is the expected behavior. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. smcafee(a)collaborativefusion.com 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.

Searching (in Postgres on MediaWiki) works on word stemming, so that any search term is broken down to its base, and the base words are compared against an indexed. There is no support for searching arbitrary collections of letters, which seems to be what you want. Doing such a thing would be an extremely time-consuming task on all but the tiniest of wikis, as there is no way to index such arbitrary searches. If this is something you really wanted, however, you could probably write an extension and/or global flag to do the searching by producing SQL similar to: SELECT * FROM page_content WHERE old_text ~ 'rabbi' WHERE ... -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)endpoint.com End Point Corporation