> Anyways so how can I get "st.gallen" split into two terms > at query time?
As you mentioned in your first mail, query st.gallen is already broken into two terms/words. But query parser constructs a phrase query. There was an disscussion about this behaviour earlier. http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/d41bc0ef422b9238/understanding_the_query_parser#85db37e69ef29dba
