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PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 8 stories, 6 comments · first 2025-12-15 · latest 2026-09-19

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  1. …paradeDB and pg_search https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search Timescale has pg_textsearch https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch Neon and Databricks have Lakebase Search https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebas…
    comment by andrenotgiant · 2026-09-19 · in Tin: full-text search for Postgres
  2. ParadeDB is AGPL so not generally available on the hyperscalars. However, you can use https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch on Azure HorizonDB (and likely soon Flex). Disclosure: I'm the pg_textsearch maintainer and now at Azure. I…
  3. interesting documents: https://timescale.github.io/pg_textsearch/benchmarks/compari... https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch/blob/main/ROADMAP...
  4. …Expression indexes would be another option, not yet done but there is a community PR in flight: https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch/pull/154
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    Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by tjgreen · 2026-03-31 · 56 comments
  6. https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch BM25 index for postgres, mostly written by a single (very smart) guy and Claude Code.
  7. …for full text search these two extensions make postgres a really capable hybrid search engine: https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
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    Pg_textsearch: PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by jascha_eng · 2025-12-26 · 0 comments
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    Pg_textsearch: PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by fanf2 · 2025-12-21 · 0 comments
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    Pg_textsearch is now open-source
    story by conradfr · 2025-12-20 · 0 comments
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    PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by jascha_eng · 2025-12-19 · 0 comments
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    PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by jascha_eng · 2025-12-16 · 0 comments
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    PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
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    PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
    story by jascha_eng · 2025-12-15 · 0 comments