Percolator not working with exact match

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Hi guys,

I was reading about the percolator feature on https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-percolate.html and I couldn't get exact matches (queries with quotes) to work.

The document {"message" : "A new bonsai tree in the office"} returns the queries "bonsai tree" and ""bonsai in the office"" as well.

See detail on gist: https://gist.github.com/2trc/4c15213c64bd42af5aa3

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Did you try Phrase Matching? I believe that one should work the way you expected the query with quotes to work.

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"Phrase query" does work and I'm going to use that instead, thanks!

Should the quote issue be considered a bug?

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I don't think it's a bug, quotes in match queries are analyzed like any other query string and the standard analyzer just discards them as punctuation. The expectation that this would work like a phrase match was the problem I think.