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Mike Fiedler, Code Gardener

How many folks are actually using full text or trigram search instead of or an alternative? I'm finding PG text search to be simpler than I originally thought, and the prospect of cutting out another service is quite attractive.

@miketheman might also depend on how "deep" you need to go on search?

@xeraa fair point. My perspective has been that the default for most folks is that search is never part of their database, but now it can be for many use cases.

@miketheman I probably don't know enough about postgresql but are common features like "search as you type", "did you mean", "more like this",... (all based on relevance) not somewhere between manual and hacking around it?
plus the semantic / vector / hybrid search topic that is the main topic for fulltext-search engines right now