From 079a6a5ec03eaf3f83eaa755e8243aaf000c9a9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: flash <flash7777>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:13:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(search): use MustNot query for Deleted filter in bleve

BoolFieldQuery{Bool: false, Field: "Deleted"} does not match documents
where the Deleted field was never explicitly set. Bleve does not index
zero-value bools by default, so after an index rebuild (or on fresh
installations), all new documents lack an indexed Deleted field and are
excluded from every search query, resulting in 0 results.

Switch to a BooleanQuery with MustNot(Deleted==true), which correctly
includes all documents where Deleted is absent or false, and only
excludes documents explicitly marked as deleted.
---
 services/search/pkg/bleve/backend.go | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/services/search/pkg/bleve/backend.go b/services/search/pkg/bleve/backend.go
index 8adcdda09e..cb693c1314 100644
--- a/services/search/pkg/bleve/backend.go
+++ b/services/search/pkg/bleve/backend.go
@@ -51,12 +51,18 @@ func (b *Backend) Search(_ context.Context, sir *searchService.SearchIndexReques
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Exclude documents that have been explicitly marked as deleted.
+	// We use a negation (MustNot) rather than matching Deleted==false,
+	// because bleve does not index zero-value bools, so documents where
+	// Deleted was never explicitly set would be excluded from results.
+	deletedQuery := bleve.NewBooleanQuery()
+	deletedQuery.AddMustNot(&query.BoolFieldQuery{
+		Bool:     true,
+		FieldVal: "Deleted",
+	})
+
 	q := bleve.NewConjunctionQuery(
-		// Skip documents that have been marked as deleted
-		&query.BoolFieldQuery{
-			Bool:     false,
-			FieldVal: "Deleted",
-		},
+		deletedQuery,
 		createdQuery,
 	)