Please remove "about" from the stop words lists

[one1]

Following up on this post: Are specific terms ignored from searches?

I recently ran into this problem when a moderator was trying to find the “About” post in a specific category. They had unpinned the post. Searching for just the word “about” gave no results, but searching for “about the x category” gave the exact post.

This seems like such a simple thing to fix and such an obvious problem. How many Discourse categories must there exist in the world that have an “About” post and they are all unsearchable.

[Lilly]

Is "About" excluded from search?

Yes it is excluded, read all about postgresql - List of StopWords in Postgres 9.1 - Super User Current default English stopword list is: dev:/usr/share/postgresql/10/tsearch_data# cat english.stop i me my myself we our ours ourselves you your yours yourself yourselves he him his himself she her hers herself it its itself they them their theirs themselves what which who whom this that these those am is are was were be been being have has had having do does did doing a an the and but if or beca…

[one1]

Thanks for the link. I know it is included. I’m saying that it should not be.

Obviously there is a reason why a list like this exists. My point is that a generic list is unhelpful in our situation.

Is there no way to override the default list?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@one1

Is there no way to override the default list?

Sadly Discourse does not control this list, it comes from Postgres configuration.

Amending this is reasonably complex and may end up backfiring:

Amending Stop Words in PostgreSQL English

There is absolutely room for making search better, but this is feature request material.

[one1]

OK, that’s the answer I needed but not what I wanted.

Thank you.