Why we run Postgres full-text search before reaching for Elasticsearch
By ScaleForgs Admin
Elasticsearch earns its keep at scale, but most teams reach for it long before they need it. Postgres full-text search with GIN indexes handles ranked, typo-tolerant search on catalogues well into the millions of rows without a second datastore to keep in sync.
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