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Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search? by samsk on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:47PM (#20481855)
With Postgresql you can use pg_trgm, might be not as powerful as what SOLR/ES provides, but easier to run.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search? by peterdm on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:19PM (#20489778)
Upvoted. This is how Postgres supports "fuzzy searching" which helps with misspellings. https://www.rdegges.com/2013/easy-fuzzy-text-searching-with-...

Completion response-time will be slower than Solr, Elasticsearch, Algolia, etc... but if you're already running Postgres, this may be the fastest to deliver for you.

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