fts-relaxation-bounded
IN premise
Progressive FTS query relaxation is bounded: a 20-term query produces at most 51 `_fts_query` invocations, preventing unbounded search expansion on long input queries.
Summary
Even for very long search queries, the system's strategy of progressively loosening the full-text search terms has a hard ceiling on how many actual database lookups it will perform. This means search won't spiral into excessive work regardless of input length, keeping response times predictable.
Details
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