Wildcard namespace searches find their results everywhere

A search that uses a wildcard in its namespace — for example namespace:*/Source scope:subtree, which looks for content in a particular kind of folder across every space — could quietly come back empty, or miss newly added items, depending on which store happened to answer it.

The cause was a mismatch in how the wildcard was written down internally: the search text was translated into a database-specific form that the non-database parts of the platform did not recognise, so they matched nothing at all rather than reporting a problem. Searches that span several levels of folders were affected twice over, because only the first wildcard in a pattern was being honoured.

Wildcards now mean one and the same thing everywhere, so these searches return identical results no matter which backend serves them. Live views built on such a search also start updating again when new matching content appears — previously they could stay stale indefinitely.

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