# Can not search channel by text **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [February 28, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/can-not-search-channel-by-text/6780 "2019-02-28T07:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![dannymohammad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/dannymohammad/32/2489_2.png) [@dannymohammad](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/dannymohammad)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/can-not-search-channel-by-text/6780/6 "2019-03-01T07:21:55Z")
Hi, @Babbles. No worries and thank you for the clarification. As per your statement here, it seems that the **Channel** search is working though it requires you to delete the character: > [@Babbles](#): > > Then I input the search word and delete the one character from the end of the search term, the result is extracted. Can I make it possible to search without deleting characters? Since it does work for **Posts** normally (assuming that MariaDB was restarted after all the changes were made), I would like to understand the **differences** between these 2 tables here. Can you please run the following command on your SQL terminal and provide the outputs? `SHOW TABLE STATUS WHERE Name = "Channels"\G` `SHOW TABLE STATUS WHERE Name = "Posts"\G` If they are the same, there might be a potential bug specific to the Channel search though it is yet to be fully confirmed. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/can-not-search-channel-by-text/6780)._