html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/743#issuecomment-620166959,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/743,620166959,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyMDE2Njk1OQ==,9599,2020-04-27T18:50:30Z,2020-04-27T18:50:30Z,OWNER,"Here's the `escape_fts()` function:
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/89c4ddd4828623888e91a1d2cb396cba12d4e7b4/datasette/utils/__init__.py#L742-L753

https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+escape_fts%28%27bar%2A%27%29

<img width=""466"" alt=""fixtures__select_escape_fts__bar____and_Launch_Meeting_-_Zoom"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/80409172-3df55800-887d-11ea-9c71-2245f2f942e3.png"">

So apparently wrapping a SQLite FTS word like `""bar*""` doesn't prevent SQLite from expanding the wildcard.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",607770595,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/743#issuecomment-620170826,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/743,620170826,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyMDE3MDgyNg==,9599,2020-04-27T18:58:04Z,2020-04-27T18:58:04Z,OWNER,"Maybe this is moot because you can't store a `*` character in a FTS table anyway, so it would never make sense to search for one? In which case maybe `escape_fts()` should just strip out `*` entirely?

Best source of information I could find was this tiny thread from 2014 about FTS4:

http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Escaping-conventions-for-FTS4-virtual-table-queries-td74589.html

>  Dave Baggett wrote:
> > What if I want docids of documents containing the exact literal token ""any*""?
> 
> You would have to use one of the Unicode tokenizers, and configure it to
> interpret * as a token character.
> 
> > how do I escape the asterisk so that it's not interpreted as a wildcard?
> 
> There are no escapes.  When * is a token character, you lose the ability
> to do prefix searches. 

I could investigate further by learning to use the fts5vocab virtual table debugging tool to see what's actually stored in those FTS5 indexes and check if `*` is indeed stripped by them.

https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#the_fts5vocab_virtual_table_module","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",607770595,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/743#issuecomment-620174977,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/743,620174977,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyMDE3NDk3Nw==,9599,2020-04-27T19:05:56Z,2020-04-27T19:05:56Z,OWNER,"The other option would be to leave this as-is, and let people wildcard search all they want. I'm leaning in that direction.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",607770595,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/743#issuecomment-620177365,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/743,620177365,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyMDE3NzM2NQ==,9599,2020-04-27T19:11:01Z,2020-04-27T19:11:30Z,OWNER,"Huh... turns out the documentation already claims that wildcards work! Closing this as wontfix:

https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/full_text_search.html#the-table-view-api

<img width=""751"" alt=""Full-text_search_—_Datasette_documentation"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/80410937-34212400-8880-11ea-84ba-1099c0f26563.png"">","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",607770595,