From 7ecd11accb68cc0f20e7ab84673df38413ba7cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:50:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add paranoia limit

---
 synapse/storage/search.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/synapse/storage/search.py b/synapse/storage/search.py
index 7a30ce25eb..1b987161e2 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/search.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/search.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class SearchStore(SQLBaseStore):
         for clause in clauses:
             sql += " AND " + clause
 
-        sql += " ORDER BY rank DESC"
+        sql += " ORDER BY rank DESC LIMIT 500"
 
         results = yield self._execute(
             "search_msgs", self.cursor_to_dict, sql, *([search_term] + args)