insights: Use patterntype:literal for all queries unless otherwise defined (!38774) · Merge requests · Administrator / sourcegraph · GitLab

Administrator requested to merge insights/pattern-literal into main Jul 13, 2022

Created by: CristinaBirkel

Closes: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/38439

This change is to make sure that we preserve the current query behavior even when the search changes to read /.../ syntax as a regular expression.

Test plan

backfiller jobs are queued up with the patterntype:literal field, when that field is not specified
backfiller jobs are queued with whatever patterntype is provided, if one is provided