I was wondering if anyone is aware of an existing Jira for this bug... _query_:"\"a b\"~2" ...is parsed as... PhraseQuery(someField:"a b") ...instead of the expected... PhraseQuery(someField:"a b"~2)
_query_:"\"a b\""~2 ...is parsed as... PhraseQuery(someField:"a b"~2) _query_:"\"a b\"~2"~3 ...is parsed as... PhraseQuery(someField:"a b"~3) Basically, if a nested query produces a PhraseQuery with slop, the slop is overridden (or set to 0) by the slop on the magic _query_ field (of course, having slop on the _query_ field would make no sense). Looked around in Jira, but couldn't find this having been reported. I guess it is just a bit esoteric... -Michael