Experimental feature: Customize proximity precision

[ManyTheFish]

Feature name	How to enable	Description
proximity precision	curl \ -X PATCH 'http://localhost:7700/experimental-features/' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data-binary '{ "proximityPrecision": "wordScale" | "attributeScale" }'	Enable proximity precision customization

Meilisearch v1.6 (released January) introduces the proximityPrecision index setting.

Experimental feature abstract

Setting proximityPrecision to wordScale or attributeScale experimental feature will change how Meilisearch considers the distance between query words. This setting allows the user to choose between having a precise distance computation between query words but a longer indexing time (if set to wordScale) and a less precise distance computation between query words but a shorter indexing time (if set to attributeScale).

See the public API definition for more info:
https://www.notion.so/meilisearch/Alternative-Proposal-aa69c2bab2c3402bab9340ae4def4577?pvs=4

How to use the feature?

1. Call the PATCH /experimental-features passing "proximityPrecision": "attributeScale"|"wordScale". The default value is "wordScale".
2. Change the index settings using the proximityPrecision attribute, this will trigger a full reindexing.

[ManyTheFish]

Closing this discussion,
the feature will no more released as an experimental feature but as a stable one directly.