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Episode Synopsis
Nikolay and Michael have a high-level discussion on all things search — touching on full-text search, semantic search, and faceted search. They discuss what comes in Postgres core, what is possible via extensions, and some thoughts on performance vs implementation complexity vs user experience. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Simon Riggs https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7178702287740022784/Companion databases episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/companion-databasespgvector episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/pgvectorFull Text Search https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.htmlSemantic search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_searchFaceted search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_searchFaceting large result sets in PostgreSQL https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/faceting-large-result-sets/RUM index https://github.com/postgrespro/rum Hybrid search (Supabase guide) https://supabase.com/docs/guides/ai/hybrid-search Elastic https://www.elastic.co/ GiST indexes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gist.html GIN indexes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gin.html btree_gist https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/btree-gist.html btree_gin https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/btree-gin.html pg_trgrm https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html Text Search Types (tsvector and tsquery) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-textsearch.html Postgres full text search with the “websearch” syntax (blog post by Adam Johnson) https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/01/03/postgresql-full-text-search-websearch/Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad (blog post by Lukas Fittl) https://pganalyze.com/blog/gin-index ParadeDB https://www.paradedb.com/ ZomboDB https://www.zombodb.com/ Introduction to Information Retrieval (book by Manning, Raghavan, and Schütze) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Christopher-Manning/dp/0521865719 How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails (blog post by Justin Searls) https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2021-09-09-how-to-build-a-search-engine-with-ruby-on-rails/~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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