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So a notice saying "You requested page X but there are only Y pages in this result set, page Y is shown" or redirection to the last valid page?

We can in that case display a link to the last page perhaps with the error something like " This page was not found/deleted" Click Here to go back to page 1 ?

What should be the correct thing to do in case user tries to go to a result page which doesn't exist by changing start = parameter in the link,
an error like - "This Search Result Page is not valid" ? or maybe redirection to the last result page?

Currently when No results are found for a search query, trigger_error function is called which results in search box being empty.
The search box in my opinion should contain the keywords even if no results were found.

Documentation for + and - support is present in advanced search much like in mysql fulltext.
Incase of no match currently use trigger_error because of which search box is cleared. Should i modify this to actually show the search term?
Rest things mentioned above have already been resolved or are i ...

Yes i have included the ticket number in the commit messages.

PostgreSQL Branch working for new install as well as on updating to 3.1 [https://github.com/dhruvgoel92/phpbb3/t ... ext-search]
getting Sphinx Search is still on , once done we will have an idea how to proceed further as oleg said.

Motivation for Proposal/ Goal
Improving and Extending the PHPBB Search Backend will provide faster and more efficient search capability. It will also make the interface more user friendly by introducing filters. Open Source Search backends like- Sphinx, Lucene are very important for forums which ...

Perhaps we could introduce unit tests for search ?

I have made a PR. If some could take a look and suggest improvements if any.
One improvement i thought of adding was to highlight the current sessions key.

https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/652