pculture/mirocommunity — comment on commit 0bfa410dd5b7043434c5fbc231ae459ac895e898
File: localtv/search/utils.py line 355
By paulswartz:

If `USE_HAYSTACK` is set, we're probably doing it because the search backend is down. In that case, we should either fake it (description__contains='foo') or return an empty query set. Still doing the search just means users will get a non-useful error page.