Text Similarity Search in Postgres

1 points | by kehvyn 3 hours ago

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  • kehvyn 3 hours ago

    A brief summary of a Postgres extension I enjoyed finding last year. I've used it a few times on side-projects.

    I know it's not AS good as full-text search, but a lot of applications are still searching on specific fields with "WHERE name ILIKE "%John$", and this is a drop-in replacement.