Why does my WFS filter not work?

[Gregor Mosheh]

>>> Is it possible for you to check mapserver debug messages (set DEBUG 
>>> true on the layer)

> CONFIG  "MS_ERRORFILE" "test.log"
> DEBUG 5
> This should write all debug informations in the file. And you should set 
> DEBUG true on your postgis layer.

Big question:
This version of "enabling debugging" isn't on the website, as far as I 
can see. Or if it is, it's not mentioned from the debug and log 
directives in the mapfile reference. Is this new for MS4 or MS4.10, 
and/or should the docs be updated?

BUT, now that the logging is working, it was somewhat informative:

SELECT 
"featcode"::text,asbinary(force_collection(force_2d(the_geom)),'NDR'),gid::text 
from parcels WHERE (gid= 2389524) and (the_geom && setSRID( 'BOX3D(-1 
-1,-1 -1)'::BOX3D,find_srid('','parcels','the_geom') ));

See that BOX3D() for intersection testing? If I so a manual SQL query, 
swapping in real coordinates such as BOX3D(168.011 -46.919,168.12 
-46.89) then it finds the feature!

So: What's with this spurious bbox when one was not specified in the 
URL? I tried the Subversion version as well, and got exactly the same 
results.

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