What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. from djangosearch import search 2. search(query="query_string timestamp:[2009-01-08T20:16:36.1Z TO 2009-01-08T20:16:36.500Z]").query

What is the expected output? query_string AND timestamp:[2009-01-08T20:16:36.1Z TO 2009-01-08T20:16:36.500Z]

What do you see instead? query_string

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? trunk

Please provide any additional information below. I am suggesting the addition of a parameter in search called "query_abstraction_layer". The default will be True that means that search will take advantage of "convert_query" and if set to False it will use the original query string.

This approach will enable the use of all the specificities of the backend. --yml