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Re:Tin: full-text search for Postgres by throwaway7783 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:53PM (#49769628)
LLMs are becoming a world expert in everything.

I am exploring this exact area of search and analytics for vanilla postgres as replicas. Guess what, the LLM came up with this exact conclusion of using ctids as docids, all by itself. It was surreal for me to read the blog above , when I hit that paragraph about ctids.

I am no postgres internals expert.

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Re:Tin: full-text search for Postgres by what on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:53PM (#49770435)
>all by itself

Or it’s read countless articles on doing the same thing.

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Re:Tin: full-text search for Postgres by throwaway7783 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:10PM (#49770513)
I mean, that goes without saying for LLMs. It is an approximation of human knowledge after all.
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Re:Tin: full-text search for Postgres by awesome_dude on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:43PM (#49779311)
In the same way that a google search is .

LLMs are still playing word association - humans have something a little more complex going on where the word has meaning.

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