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fix(search): derive snippet spans from the matched bytes - #1643
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The three content-search snippet paths ended a match at start+len(pattern): internal/db/search_content.go substringSnippet and FTSSnippetRange, internal/postgres/search_content.go pgSubstringSnippet, and internal/duckdb/store.go. The offset that starts the span already came from CaseInsensitiveIndex, which walks the body rune by rune so it cannot be shifted by a case mapping that changes UTF-8 length, but the end was taken from the pattern instead. Simple folding maps U+212A KELVIN SIGN (three bytes) to "k" (one byte), so a body carrying the long form ends the span two bytes inside that rune, and a pattern carrying it ends the span two bytes past the match. snippetBounds and its PostgreSQL and DuckDB twins snap only the padding edges: their loops stop at the span, so they cannot repair a span that is not rune-aligned. Today the 60-byte radius hides it, because the padded edge always lands on a boundary or at the end of the body, but the alignment is the precondition those helpers are written against and secrets.RedactWindow documents. CaseInsensitiveIndex becomes CaseInsensitiveSpan, returning the byte range the match actually covers in the body along with whether one was found, and the three backends window that range instead of each recomputing an end from the pattern. A miss now reports the start of the body with an empty span rather than a pattern-length one; the substring paths reach it only when the SQL LIKE/ILIKE matched but the Unicode-aware Go search did not, which cannot happen because the Go fold is the wider of the two.
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The three content-search snippet paths end a match at
start+len(pattern). The start offset is already computed the careful way, rune by rune over the body, so a case mapping that changes UTF-8 length cannot shift it, but the end is taken from the pattern. Simple folding maps U+212A KELVIN SIGN, three bytes, tok, one byte, so a body holding the long form ends the span two bytes inside that rune, and a pattern holding it ends the span two bytes past the match.snippetBoundsand its PostgreSQL and DuckDB twins pad the span by 60 bytes and snap only the padding edges back to a rune boundary. Their loops stop when they reach the span, so none of them can repair a span that is not aligned. The 60-byte radius means no snippet is visibly wrong today, but rune alignment is the precondition those helpers andsecrets.RedactWindoware written against, and the three copies of the same end expression are the kind of thing that drifts.CaseInsensitiveIndexbecomesCaseInsensitiveSpan: it returns the byte range the match actually covers in the body plus whether one was found, and each backend windows that range instead of recomputing an end from the pattern. Everything ASCII, which is nearly every query, gets the identical span it got before.One behavior change comes with it. A miss now yields an empty span at the start of the body rather than a pattern-length one, so the fallback window is up to
len(pattern)bytes shorter on its right edge. The substring paths reach that branch only if SQLLIKE/ILIKEmatched where the Go search did not, and the Go fold is the wider of the two, so it is unreachable there;FTSSnippetRangealready returned0, 0for its own start fallback.Reviewer attention is best spent on
CaseInsensitiveSpanandfoldPrefixEndininternal/db/search_content.go. The PostgreSQL and DuckDB call sites are the same two-line substitution, and I could not exercise their suites locally since both need services I do not have set up.