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<h3>Exact user searches</h3>
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<p>If your site has a lot of users and uses a PostgreSQL database,
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user searches will be faster with exact user searching enabled.
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The setting will still work with MySQL databases, but is unlikely
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to significantly increase search performance.</p>
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<p>However, partial matches on profile fields will not return results,
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so if for example you have a user called "Nigel", then typing "Nige"
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into the search box will not find that user.</p>